Showing posts with label architect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architect. Show all posts

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.





Sunday, June 1, 2025

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred eight.

                                                            Filippo Brunelleschi.

Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/filippo-brunelleschi-1377-1446-he-italian-1400994116


“Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.”

“To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.”

Source of information:

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/filippo-brunelleschi-quotes 

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.




Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Great people: Andrea Palladio.

Andrea di Pietro della Gondola was an Italian architect. He was born on November 30, 1508, in Republic of Venice.

Palladio created different villas.

He died on August 19, 1580, in Republic of Venice.





Thursday, August 3, 2023

Great people: Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian architecture. Also, he created sculptures. Gian Lorenzo Bernini was born on November 7, 1598, in Naples.

His movement was Baroque style.

Apollo and Daphne (1622-1625), Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1647-1652), David (1623-1624) are Bernini’s works.

He died on November 29, 1680, in Rome.





Wednesday, August 2, 2023

Famous people and their quotes. Part eighty six.

Andrea Palladio.


“BEAUTY will result from the form and correspondence of the whole, with respect to the several parts, of the parts with regard to each other, and of these again to the whole; that the structure may appear an entire and compleat body, wherein each member agrees with the other, and all necessary to compose what you intend to form.”

Source of information:

https://www.azquotes.com/quote/654683

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.


Friday, August 16, 2019

Fashion.

Fashion often changes. It doesn't stand still. Fashion influences many things of its time.

Colors, clothes, arts, make up, shoes, and even lifestyle are parts of the fashion. Building styles, such as: Baroque, Rococo, Gothic, and ect. These were popular fashion styles for their periods. But time is changing, fashion is changing, too.

During history people had different types of clothes. Also, climate and weather were influences for it. On was replaced by another.

Sometimes a fashion may come back. Old names. jewelry, or symbols can appear again. Different things affect fashion.

This industry continues today.

Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/es/image-vector/fashion-collage-freehand-drawings-female-faces-1056146996

Fashion collage with freehand drawings, female faces

Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/es/image-vector/fashion-man-set-fashionable-mens-sketches-1120695398

Fashion man. Set of fashionable men's sketches on a white background. Spring men.

Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/es/image-illustration/abstract-watercolor-brush-strokes-isolated-on-631392137

abstract watercolor brush strokes isolated on white, creative illustration, artistic color palette, grungy smear, red purple pink gold, fashion background

Sunday, November 5, 2017

Great people: Michelangelo.

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born on March 6, 1475 in Italy. His mother died when he was just six years old. Little Michelangelo Buonarroti lived with nanny.

Since early childhood he was interested in arts. Several years later Michelangelo became a sculptor, artist, poet, and architect.


Michelangelo Buonarroti made many famous High Renaissance works. For example, he painted The Creation of Adam. Also, Michelangelo created famous statue David. Architect designed St. Peter's Basilica with other people in Rome.



Artist made important things for history, rococo style, and XIV century. Michelangelo Buonarroti died on February 18, 1564 in Rome, Italy.