Showing posts with label Renaissance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Renaissance. Show all posts

Saturday, November 15, 2025

Humanism.

Humanism is a philosophical concept that places special value on human life. And everything else should make life more comfortable.

At different times, there were different forms of humanism in philosophy. During the Renaissance, a new ideal of man emerged.

Humanism is closely related to ethics.

Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/ru/image-photo/universe-within-silhouette-man-inside-physical-2475343579





Monday, September 1, 2025

Great people: Tycho Brahe.

Tyge Ottesen Brahe was born on December 14, 1546, in Denmark-Norway.

He was an astronomer during Renaissance.


Tycho Brahe did important things for science. There is the Tychonic system.


Also, he wrote books.

Brahe died on October 24, 1601, in Prague, Czech Republic.


Friday, August 1, 2025

Great people: Filippo Brunelleschi.

Fillipo di ser Brunellesco di Lippo Lapri was born in 1377, in Florence, Italy.

He was known as an Italian architect and sculptor. Filippo Brunelleschi's movement was Renaissance.

Dome of Florence Cathedral is his work.

Filippo Bruneschi died on April 15, 1446, in Florence, Italy.





Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Great people: Leon Battista Alberti.

Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian scientist, artist, writer, philosopher, and architect.

He was born on February 14, 1404, in Genoa, Italy.

Alberti's movement was in Italian Renaissance.

He had his own notable works.

Leon Battista Alberti died on April 25, 1472, in Rome, Italy.




Saturday, March 1, 2025

Great people: Donatello.

Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi was an Italian sculptor. He was born in 1386, in Republic of Florence.


Donatello worked with different materials for his sculptors.



Renaissance was Donatello's movement.

He died on December 13, 1466, in Republic of Florence.



Sunday, July 2, 2023

Great people: Paolo Veronese.

Paolo Veronese, also known as Paolo Caliari was an Italian painter. He was born in 1528, in Verona.


Veronese had his own movement: Renaissance. Leda and the Swan (1585), Perseus and Andromeda (1576-1578), Adoration of the Magi (1573) are his famous works.



Paolo Veronese died in 1588, in Venice.



Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Famous people and their quotes. Part eighty three.

                                                        Paolo Veronese.


“We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.”

“I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.”

“I had not thought that I was doing wrong; I had never taken so many things into consideration.”

Source of information:

https://www.azquotes.com/author/26656-Paolo_Veronese

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Great people: Titian.

Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio was born in 1488/90, in Italy. He was a painter of Renaissance.



Titian had his own style of art.



His famous works: Perseus and Andromeda (1554-1556), Venus and Adonis, Danaё (1544-1560s), Diana and Acteon (1556-1559), Diana and Callisto (1556-1559), and etc.

Titian died on August 27, 1576, in Venice.



Friday, February 3, 2023

Great people: Jan van Eyck.

Jan van Eyck was a Dutch painter. He was born in 1380, in Holy Roman Empire.



Jan van Eyck was a part of the Renaissance movement.



His famous works: The Arnolfini Portrait (1434) Madonna in the Church (1438-1440) Madonna of Chancellaor (1435) Rolin Gjent Atarpiece (1432), and etc.

Jan van Eyck died on July 9, 1441, in Netherlands.



Sunday, January 1, 2023

Great people: Giorgione.

Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco was born in 1477, in Italy. He was a painter. Giorgione studied with Giovanni Bellini. He painted in High Renaissance style.

His notable works are: The Tempest (1508), Sleeping Venus (1510), Madonna and Child Between St. Francis and St. Nicasius, or  Castelfranco Madonna (1503/04), The Three Philosophers (1505-1509).

Giorgione died in 1510, in Italy.





Friday, December 2, 2022

Great people: Caravaggio.

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi also known as Caravaggio. He was born on September 29, 1571, in Milan, Italy.



Caravaggio was an Italian painter. Baroque was his style.

Caravaggio visited different places. His famous paintings; include: Young Sick Bacchus (1593), Boy Bitten by a Lizard (1596), Bacchus (1596), Medusa (1597), Basket of Fruit (1599), and etc.


Caravaggio died on July 18, 1610, in Porto Ercole, Italy.

Thursday, December 1, 2022

Famous people and their quotes. Part seventy eight.

                                                            Jan van Eyck.

 

“Tangible piece of luminous matter, thee confront us with a reconstruction rather than a mere representation of the visible world.”

Source of information:

https://www.theartstory.org/artist/van-eyck-jan/

Thursday, August 4, 2022

Great people: Giordano Bruno.

 Giordano Bruno was an Italian scientist and philosopher. He was born in 1548, in Italy.

 


Bruno’s era was Renaissance. 

He studied space and our Solar System.

 


Giordano Bruno died on February 17, 1600, in Rome.



Friday, July 1, 2022

Great people: Albrecht Dürer.

Albrecht Dürer was a German painter. He was born on May 21, 1471, in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire. His parents were Albrecht Dürer the elder and Barbara Holper.

Dürer visited Italy, Netherlands, and etc.

He created many famous paintings: Young Hare (1502), Haller Madonna (1505), Dürer's Rhinoceros (1515). Dürer's movement was High Renaissance.

Albrecht Dürer married Agnes Grey in 1494.

He died on April 6, 1528, in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire.





Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Great people: Sandro Batticelli.

 Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi was an Italian Renaissance painter.

He was born in 1445, in Florence. Batticelli studied painting with Filippo Lippi.


Sandro Batticelli created many famous paintings. The Birth of Venus (1484-1486), Primavera (late 1470s, early 1480s), Adoration of the Magi (1475), Madonna and Child (1465-1470), Madonna and Child with an Angel (1465-1467).



He died on May 17, 1510, in Florence.


Saturday, December 5, 2020

Great people: Erasmus.

 Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus was known as a Dutch philosopher. He was born on October 28, 1469, in the Netherlands.

He was interested in humanism. Erasmus studied in colleges and universities. His era was Renaissance Philosophy or XVI century philosophy.


Erasmus wrote many books. In Praise of Folly (Stultitiae Laus or Moriae Encomium). This book was written in 1509. On Civility in Children (De civilitate morum puerilium) (1530). Handbook of a Christian Knigh (Enchiridion militis Christiani) (1501). In these books there are satire and philosophy. He wrote his books in Latin.


English philosopher Sir Thomas More shared the same era with Erasmus Roterodamus.

Erasmus died on July 12, 1536, in Basel, Old Swiss Confederacy.



Sunday, November 15, 2020

Byzantine Empire.

 Byzantium or Eastern Roman Empire (Imperium Romanum Orientale, Romania) (Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων, Ῥωμανία) was a province in the late antiquity and early Middle Ages. Capital of Byzantium was Constantinople. This city was large.

The Byzantine Empire left after the Roman Empire.

This country had its own culture, laws, civilization, rules, and emperors. Byzantine Empire was powerful for that time.

People in this empire talked in Greek language. But they identified themselves as Romans. Their religion was Christianity.

Byzantine Empire was a wealthy country in the early medieval period. Eastern Roman Empire had its own schools and education.

This country had many wars during its history. Rulers of other counties wanted to conquer Byzantium.

Also, Byzantine Empire had many architectural works. Different churches and other buildings had their  own style for Middle Ages.

But later this empire lost some parts. Empire which existed several centuries fell.

Byzantine Empire left legacy. Other countries studied this history. During Renaissance (XIV-XVII centuries) culture of Byzantium helped scientists.

Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/ru/image-photo/ancient-golden-byzantine-coins-emperor-portraits-418296661



Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/ru/image-vector/vector-map-byzantine-empire-1351244093



Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/ru/image-vector/emperor-empress-byzantine-royal-family-crown-1371897008



Monday, February 3, 2020

Great people: Raphael.

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino was born on April 6, 1483, in Italy. His parents died when he was a child.

Raphael was known as an Italian artist and architect. He created many famous paintings, such as: Portrait of a Man (1502), Madonna and Child with the Book (1503), Self-Portrait (1503), the Conestabile Madonna (1504), Three Graces (1504).


The artist works were important for the Renaissance period. Raffaello Santi drew different people.


His paint the Sistine Madonna (1512) is one of the most popular works in the world.

Raphael Santi died on April 6, 1520, in Rome, Italy.


Saturday, May 4, 2019

Great people: Francis Bacon.

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban was born on January 22, 1561, in London, England. The philosopher had several siblings.

He studied in different universities and colleges.

Francis Bacon lived during Elizabethan Era and Renaissance. Also, he became a writer, scientist, and politician.

Bacon said clever words. The philosopher studued empiricism, natural philosophy, and philosophical logic.

Francis Bacon influenced to other philosophers. Bacon died on April 9, 1626, in England.