Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was a composer during the Italian Renaissance. He was firstly a composer of sacred music, having composed more than 300 motets, 105 masses, 72 hymns and many more works of a sacred variety. Giovanni was born in his namesake city, Palestrina, a city near Rome. He studied the European style of polyphony under Robin Mallapert and Firmin Lebel in Rome. He spent ten years as the organist for the cathedral of St. Agapito in Palestrina, where he published his first compositions which made such an impression on Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, later to be known as Pope Julius III that the Pope promoted him to music director of the Jullian Chapel. After his time at St. Agapito, he spent the rest of his life in Rome
It is a long-with-standing stereotype that Italians love to gamble. This is true. My great grandfather, Pasquale Giovannone, played the riskiest hand of cards when he immigrated to the United States as an illegal stowaway at the age of thirteen. He forged a life for himself amidst the ever-changing social and political shifts of the early nineteenth century. The legacy he left would later lead to the birth of my father, John Giovannone, in Northern New Jersey in 1962.
La Pietà of Giovanni Della Robbia is amazing religious glazed and painted terracotta dated 1510-1520. It was mainly intended to introduce the meaning of the Bible story to large and mainly illiterate audiences. One of the things that this image can tell us about life in western civilization is how much the artists were focused on translating the bible and trying to understand it without the help of the Catholic Church through art and humanism. La Pietà is one of the richest and best known collections of Della Robbia sculptures at the springtime of the renaissance. The creator of the sculpture is Giovanni Della Robbia; the first and epic of a dynasty of important pottery artists, decorators, potters, and terracotta workers. Della Robbia developed a unique pottery glaze that made his creations much more durable in the outdoors and therefore much suitable for use on the exterior of buildings. This was an extraordinarily formal and refined technique that immediately met with great success, so much so that the Della Robbia family’s work flourished for over one hundred years. It uniquely combines archaeometric and stylistic time-related information about the renaissance age in Western Civilization. In its context, La Pietà was created in the 15th century, the renaissance age , when there was a surge in artistic, literary, and scientific activity , especially in Florence, the third largest city in Europe, an independent republic where the Italian Renaissance began, and a banking and commercial capital after London and Constantinople. The renaissance era when this sculptured was created was also marked by few major events such as: religious problems in church, Erasmus publishing Greek edition of the New Treatment ...
Archeology, which is the study of human activity in the past, has many significant names that discovered important sites to the history of art. One of these names is Heinrich Schliemann. Heinrich Schliemann was born on 6th of January, 1822, and died on December 26th, 1890. Schliemann was a businessman who could speak 15 languages, and he was a world traveler. His father used to read for him Homer’s Iliad when he was eight years old, which made his biggest dream is to become archeological and find about the places that Homer talked about. Schliemann, as a businessman, made a fortune, which was enough for him to retire; then, in 1871, he started to follow his dream and worked on Troy. Heinrich Schliemann work is very important and added a significant value to the history of art. His discoveries in Troy, Mycenae and Tiryns made him a pioneer in archeology.
Antonio Stradivari was born in Bergamo Italy 1644. In his youth he lived in Cremona Italy, where he became the apprentice of Nicolo Amati. He had married twice, once in 1667 with a woman named Francesca, whom he had six children with. His first son only lived for six days. The rest later became priests, and apprentices of their father. Francesca then died in 1698. Soon after Stradivari remarried in 1699 to a woman named Antonia. Antonia and Stradivari had four children. Two of which had died. Stradivari bought a home in Piazza Roma; this is where Stradivari carried out his work as a luthier, with his sons at his side as apprentices. In 1737 Stradivari had died and was buried in the church of San Domenico in Cremona where his family had originated.
Redi was perhaps the first toxicologist; he performed countless experiments with the effects of the snakebite. He would, poison other animals with the venom taken from living, and dead snakes. He would sprinkle liquid or powdered venom on the wounds, or puncture the animal w...
Citlalli is a 16-year-old Junior at Olathe East High school. She has a group of friends that she hangs out with during Hawk Hour. Citlalli’s favorite teacher is Mrs. Rippee who was her English teacher in ninth grade. She participates in NHS and Science Olympiad at school along with her friends. She has a pet leopard gecko named Chamomile because that is her favorite tea. Her favorite colors are light blue, green, and gray but she prefers dark green the most. She loves everything o do with nature and likes to incorporate it into her paintings. Citlalli can be quiet at times but also loves to be loud and talk.
Albana Gallari is an Albanian Immigrant who moved to the United States on February 16, 1997. Gallari was born in communist Albania on March 4, 1974. Gallari lived under the reign of Communist Dictator Enver Hoxha throughout her early life. Gallari grew up poor with little to eat besides bread and cheese and had almost no material possessions besides 3 pairs of clothes along with 3 tattered dolls. Throughout her early life her mother took care of her alongside her job of working in a government factory and her father was a livestock veterinarian. Gallari faintly remembers going to her friend's house on Sundays to watch cartoons due to her family being too poor to afford a television. After the communist regime fell in 1992, Gallari became a
Giovanni Bellini was born in Venice, Italy around 1430. He was the son of Jacopo Bellini, an esteemed painter at the time, and probably began his career along side his brother as an assistant in his father’s workshop. Though his artwork was influenced by many of his friends and relatives, Giovanni possessed certain qualities in his compositions which set him apart from the others. He blended the styles of both his father and brother-in-law, Andrea Mantegna, with his own subtle appreciation of color and light, the high regard he held for the detail of natural landscape, along with the very direct human empathy he placed in his painting. These components of Bellini’s personal style became foundational to the character of all Venetian Renaissance Art. Bellini later developed a sensuous coloristic manner in his work which became yet another characteristic he contributed to the Venetian Renaissance Art.
There were numerous poems, legends, saint's lives, chronicles and similar literature written throughout history. The history of Italian artists involved in graphic art included: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Fra Angelico, Raphael, and many others that are very well known throughout the whole world. Italy is famous for all of its beautiful arts, especially during the Renaissance period (Advameg). Music from Italy is known as one of the greatest European arts. Some of the well-known Italian works include: the Gregorian chant, the troubadour song, and the madrigal. Italian musicians are frequently talked about and may incorporate: Giovanni Palestrina and Claudio Giovanni Monteverdi. Composers following them included: Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti, Gaetano Donizetti, Giuseppe Verdi, and Vincenzo
Muzio Clementi was born on January 24 1752 in Rome,Italy as the eldest of seven. His parents were Nicolo Clementi and Magdalena Kaiser. He was consider to be a child prodigy, at the age of nine he was appointed as an organist and at 12 created an oratorio. Until Clementi was 21, he lived in England with a wealthy Englishman, Sir Peter Beckford to learn the harpsichord, those seven years of his life created the great man he later became. In 1774, Clementi went to London where his talents as a composer and performer were greatly appreciated. In 1780, He began a tour of Europe, during this tour when Clementi visited Vienna, he meet Mozart where they had a friendly duel. Clementi led a life in London where he had the jobs of composer, teacher, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music publisher and piano manufacturer. Clementi had great influence on other composers, especially Beethoven. In 1810, he quit his performing career in favour of composing and manufacturing. Several symphonies were written during this time, they were played at concerts b...
Mozart then wrote the entire musical score completely from memory. He only had to correct minor errors when he heard it again. When Mozart was in Italy, he wrote his famous operas Mitridate, re di Ponto, Ascanio in Alba in 1777, and Lucio Silla in 1772. However, Mozart began to come across complications that threatened his musical career. In 1773, his father’s benefactor, Archbishop von Schrattenbach, died.
Petronio ultimately led him to becoming the most prolific Italian composer of baroque trumpet pieces. He contributed over three dozen pieces variously entitled sonata, sinfonia, or concerto, for one to four trumpets, to the collection of trumpet repertoire. All eight of his collections of concerts, sinfonias, and sonatas were published chronologically, making it easy to trace his progress as a composer and how he contributed to the concerto and concerto grosso genres over his career. Torelli’s works are well preserved and those that were not published remain in manuscript. Although Giuseppe Torelli built his career as a virtuoso violinist and composer of string chamber works he contributed immensely to the world of trumpet literature to the point where he has become a household name in the realm of modern trumpet
Really there wasn't much of a drive to find the first fossils discovered. When they were first found, that's all they were, found. As stated by Sues in “European Dinosaur Hunters” (1997) most of the first fossils discovered were usually fragments found in quarries. They just started showing up when people dug holes or built things. But once it was realized by the scientific community that these were the petrified remains of creatures that once lived, they became more and more valuable, and they actually became sought after. Paleontologists are always looking for new fossils of new animals to add to the list of discoveries. Like explorers in the dark depths of the jungles of South America,
Giovanni Battista Lulli was born on November 28, 1632. His father, Lorenzo di Maldo, was a miller and his mother, Caterina del Sera, was a miller’s daughter. Lully was born in Florence, Italy and lived there until age 11. While in Italy he studied dance and music; he played violin and guitar. In March of 1646 he moved to France to tutor Mlle de Montpensier in Italian. There he studied composition and harpsichord. Lully was able to hear the King’s grande bande perform, witness balls where the best French dance music was played.
Saint Philip Neri was born in Florence, Italy, in the year 1515. He was the