Italy 16th century by Matt Murray
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Italy 16th century by Matt Murray
The Golden Age and Renaissance that would impact the world forever.
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Religion during this "Golden Age" of Italy
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The Sistine Chapel
A masterpiece done by Michelangelo over the four year span of 1508-1512. Michelangelo was commissioned to do this work by Pope Julius II. The paintings represent nine scenes from the Book of Genesis, the most notable being The Creation of Adam. The painting itself is 482 tiles in total
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Bonfire of the Vanities!
Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican priest who used his power as a man of the church to convince the people of Florence to burn pieces of art and literature, because according to Savonarola these tempted sin. These burnings would destroy works by artists and writers like Boccaccio. Savonarola would later be excommunicated.
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The Council of Trent was arguably one of the most important ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. It spanned from 1545-1563 in Trento, Italy and was convoked by Pope Paul III, but was presided by Pope Julius III and Pope Pius IV and Pope Paul III himself. There were around 255 people and the main topics of discussion were Protestantism and Counter Reform. The main documents and statements were seventeen dogmatic decrees, covering all aspects of Catholic religion.
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This coin is a Florin. The Florin was a coin that quickly became the dominant coin in Europe, and was used in many a large transactions. The florin contains 54 grains of gold and was made from around 1252- around 1523. It easily worked with the new development of banks throughout Europe. It was one of many coins used and circulating through Europe at its time.
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This room is from the Medici's house. The Medici family was an extremely wealthy and arts devoted family who started banks in Florence,Italy. In the 16th century the most famous was Cosimo de' Medici also known as Cosimo I (1537-1569). He was a patron of the arts and developed the Uffizi for which he is most famous. The Medici family would change banking and having a unified coin and worth exchange system forever.
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The plague of 1575–77 claimed some 50,000 victims in Venice. It was one the worst outbreaks in Italy up to that point. It forced a lot of them to go to the countryside or inwards toward Florence, Italy.
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Domenico Fontana was a swiss engineer, born in 1543 and dying in 1607, who did most of his work in Italy. He worked on the ceiling of the library of the Vatican, the St Peter's Basilica, and most importantly his obsession with building Egyptian Obelisks, the most famous of being in the square of St Peter's. It is 327 tons and took the concerted effort of 900 men, 75 horses and countless pulleys and meters of rope.
The earliest known description of a floating dock comes from a small Italian book printed in Venice in 1560, titled Descrittione dell'artifitiosa machina. In the booklet, an unknown author asks for the privilege of using a new method for the salvaging of a grounded ship and then proceeds to describe and illustrate his approach. He includes a woodcut that shows his idea, shown above, and what he wants to do with his idea.
In Italy Architectual development was booming because of the re birth of the arts. More and more churches were commissioned and built with these new styles from the renaissance. One book actually helped spread and helped people to recognize these works of art. It was called the I quattro libri dell'architettura by Andrea Palladio in 1570.
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Intellectual
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Leonardo Da Vinci is known as the archetypal renaissance man because of his many different talents in painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His life, lasting from circa, April 15, 1452 to May 2, 1519 which was considered a very long life back then. He was first trained by Verrocchio. His desire for learning more and more would sometimes put him or others at risk, like how he developed the first idea for an armored truck/tank. It is said that he would buy dead bodies so he could learn more about our anatomy and bodies, which at that time was a crime punishable by a good amount of jail time.
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The Vitruvian man was a drawing based on the correlations of ideal human proportions with geometry described by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius in Book III of his treatise De Architectura. It is done by Leonardo Da Vinci circa 1490. It is one of the best depictions of human proportions to this day.
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Other than the Mona Lisa, arguably Da Vinci's most famous work that he left behind was his notebook, in which he kept all his anatomical studies, botanical studies, caricatures, like the one in the picture above, his inventions, and his writing. The notebook represents the renaissance man that he was. Today the different pages have ended up in many a museum but the most famous pieces like the Vitruvian man are rarely released to the public's eye because of the age of the paper.
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Michelangelo, born March 6 1475 died February 18th 1564, is arguably one of the best sculptors and painters to ever walk the earth. Pieces of his like the ceiling of the sistine chapel and the sculpt "David" have been recognized as some of the best works of art to this day. Michelangelo was also a poet, who was also suspected to be gay by some of his poems, yet later in life he fell in love with an older woman named
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Raphael was a famous Italian renaissance painter who painted and printed mostly religious scenes, but his most famous work is The School of Athens. His most famous works are on display in the Stanza Della in the Vatican. He was born on April 6th 1483, he died on April 6th 1520.
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Titian was a Venetian painter during the renaissance. He was born circa 1490- 1576. He was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods, particularly in the application and use of color, would exercise a profound influence not only on painters of the Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Western art. He used manly water colors because of the effect that Venice had on regular paints. He loved color but is most famous for his incredible use of brush strokes
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Political events during the 16th century in Italy.
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The battle of Lepanto was held on October 7th 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of southern European Catholic maritime states, decisively defeated the main fleet of the Ottoman Empire in five hours of fighting on the northern edge of the Gulf of Corinth, off western Greece. The Ottoman forces sailing westwards from their naval station in Lepanto met the Holy League forces, which had come from Messina, Sicily, where they had previously gathered. This battle stopped the Ottoman Empire from growing and some say without this victory, the Turks would have continued their takeover of Western Europe.
Spanning from 1494-1559 there were approximately 8 wars that collectively are known as the Italian Wars. Millions died and Europe was affected greatly economically and physically. The death toll and rate was unimaginable. Many city states were in military command during this time. Many of these attacks were the French attacking Italian city states, specifically the first attack of CharlesVIII on Naples in 1494.
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Italy began to experience an economic and social decline as the 16th century progressed. The Age of Discovery had shifted the center of trade in Europe from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, and so the Italian states lost much of their previous importance. Venice continued to fight bitterly with the Ottoman Empire for control of outposts in the eastern Mediterranean.
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