Italia. The land of fashion, food, fun, and beauty. When the Italian's call their land Belpaese, the beautiful country, they are not joking in the least. From the gorgeous Colosseum in Rome to vinyards in Sicily, there is never too much to see and take in in Italy. Italy became a nation state in ...

Baroque is the name given to the art of the 17th century. But the baroque style, like all other styles in the history of art, began gradually. It started in the latter part of the 16th century and continued to be used well into the 18th century. Baroque can be defined as the florid, ornate style ...

At the end of the fourteenth century, gothic architecture began to wear off and renaissance architecture moved in. Europe was evolving out of the middle ages and in the Renaissance period. The beliefs in humanity were growing in popularity. Along with the changes in ways of life, politics, families ...

In the visual arts the sixteenth century saw the spread of Italian Renaissance ideas northward. In some cases they were carried by Italian artists like Benvenuto Cellini, who went to work in France. Cellini was Goldsmith to Francis I of France from 1537 to 1545. He completed here his first sculptur...

Almost all of Italy is on the Italian peninsula that stretches out into the Mediterranean Sea. In northern Italy, lie the Alps and Italy's highest peaks, which are known as Monte Cervino at 14,692 feet and Monte Rosa, which is the highest one at 15,203 feet. One third of the total land surfaces...

The Development of Opera in Italy "Although opera did not originate in Venice...it found a most nurturing environment in the Most Serene Republic" (Rosand, p. 8). Much of Europe's music was dominated by Italian opera during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The ...

No one knows exactly when the Italian artist, Tiziano Vecellio, was born. Over the centuries, there has been a great deal of confusion concerning the date, due to a misprint in his biography by sixteenth-century art historian, Girgio Vasari. Vasari recorded the date as 1480, but the progress of Tizi...

Italy and Greece ReportItaly is located in southern Europe. Rome was once capital of the Roman Empire, but today is the capital of Italy. Nearly all Italians are Roman Catholics, although many do not attend church regularly. There are about 100,000 Protestants. Italy also has a very small Jewish...

GUISEPPE MAZZINI The Italian nationalist Guiseppe Mazzini was considered not only a patron saint for his revolutionary actions, but a main character for laying the foundation for the unification of Italy. Guiseppe's background, accomplishments, and his problems all contributed to his succ...

Assess the condition of the Roman Catholic Church on the eve of the reformation. In the 1400 - 1500's there were many changes that took place. These changes were religious, political, social and economical. In the 1500, a large part of Europe was Christian. Muslims were common too though, espec...

Amarcord Federico Fellini History can be interpreted in many different ways. It can be viewed from different perspectives and retold in many different voices. The beauty of it all is that historic events, as beautiful or disastrous as they may be, affect people on the individual level. An ar...

Italy: A Place of Romance Picture this: You and someone you love sitting on a balcony with a view of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, sipping fine wine and watching all the beautiful lights of the city. Some people could never imagine themselves in Italy. Rumors of the m...

Mussolini's Rule of Italy Mussolini ruled Italy between 1923 and 1939. Many important things happened during this time. In 1922, Mussolini organized the march to Rome. 26,000 "blackshirts" marched to Rome and threatened the Italian King Emmanuel II. The King a...

The Italian public had always loved a leader taking action and uses violence, previously before Mussolini and fascism, a man called D'annunzio had tried to clam a city called Fiumie with a seize, even though he didn't gain much from this what could only be seen as a side show; Mussolini s...

Renaissance the renaissance was a cultural awakening for western Europeans from about 1350 to 1600. The renaissance began in the city-states of Italy first. It was a continuation of the middle ages, but it also signaled the beginning of modern times also. From this Europeans developed new attitude...

The Republic of Italy is located in Southern Europe. In Italy, the economy of the North and the economy of the South are dramatically different. This difference is reflected in the population breakdown of Italy. In fact, more than two-thirds of Italy's 57.6 million people live in the urban n...

Raffaello Sanzio, better known by his father and the rest of the world as Raphael, was born in the great city of Urbino, Italy, on April 6, 1483. His father Giovanni de' Santi, a painter of no great merit, but of good intelligence, had in his mind from the beginning that his only son would study t...

Alessandro Scarlatti was a composer during the "Baroque Era". When compared with its music predecessors, "Baroque" music is said to be have more lavish textures, and more intense. This period of music introduced Operas, Oratorio's, and Cantata's. It also brought along o...

Rome: Once the largest ruling power, now shattered. What happened so many centuries ago, to make such a eminent power crumble to the ground? Powers come and go but their legacies live on. These legacies are our pedagogues; we learn from them and perfect ourselves and our nations. In researching Rome...

ANCIENT (3,000 BC – 476 AD) -Egypt & Sumeria – roots of Western Civilization -The Greece – Golden Age -2 periods: Hellenic & Hellenistic (Alexander the Great & followers) -Sophisticated culture–math, philosophy, etc. -Eventually conquered by Rome -2 periods: Roman Republic & Roman E...

My trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art was definitely an enjoyable trip. When I first arrived, I was in awe at the size and beauty of the building. The building\'s architecture reminded me of a lot of European architecture. The inside of the building was also very nice. While walking around ...

The piece \"Prometheus Bound\" is based upon the mythological story of the Titan Prometheus who stole fire from the gods to give to mankind.(web 3) This work, which was completed in 1612, has a very interesting and diverse history. Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens was born June 28, 1577. ...

DANGER ZONE by, David Klass Setting: Granham High School, Minnesota, L.A., California, and Rome, Italy. The time is in the summer, in the present. Characters: Jimmy Doyle (Snowman), the main character, Coach Griffen, and Coach McNeil, the coaches of the team, Augustus, Shawn, Ray, and Sting...

The three pieces discussed in this essay are all closely related to popes of the Roman Catholic Church. Michelangelo\'s \"The Last Judgment,\" Raphael\'s \"School of Athens\" and Pietro da Cortona\'s \"Glorification of the Reign of Urban VIII\" not only have their relation to a particular pope in c...

Many would agree that the Roman Empire was truly one of the most superior and complex civilizations of all its time. Those who stood in its path suffered the brutal and bloody consequences and were shown little, to no mercy at all. From the very beginning of its history to the chaos of civil war, t...