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.

Epione.

Epoione (Ἠπιόνη) (Ēpiónē) was a wife of Asclepius in Greek myths and legends. She was the goddess of the soothing of pain.

Machaon, Podalirius, Panacea, Hygieia, Iaso, Aceso, and Aegle were their children.

There are different types of art that show Epione.

Great people: Lord Byron.

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron was born on January 22, 1788, in London, England.

He was an English writer. Lord Byron wrote in Romanticism style.

Hours of Idleness (1807), The Giaour (1813), and Lara, A Tale (1814) were his notable works.

Byron had wife and children.

He died on April 19, 1824, in Aetolia, Greece.

Retrofuturism.

Retrofuturism is a genre of art. People from the past imagine the future. There are many assumptions about what the world will look like in many years. 

Writers wrote books about the next century and describe inventions of mankind. Artists paint buildings of the city of the future and its changes.

But these expectations don't always correspond to reality.

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Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred eight.

                                                            Filippo Brunelleschi.

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“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.”

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

Futurism.

Futurism was an artistic movement at the beginning of the XX century.

This type of art was in different aspects, such as: architecture, literature, paints, and etc.

Futurism has common features with Art Deco, Surrealism, and Constructivism.

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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.

Crochet square.

Stheno and Euryale.

Stheno (Σθενώ) (Sthenṓ) and Euryale (Εὐρυάλη) (Euryálē) were Gorgons (Γοργώνες) (Gorgones) in Greek myths and legends. Medusa (Μέδουσα) (Médousa) was their sister.

Stheno and Euryale pursued Perseus (Περσεύς) (Perseús) after he fought Medusa. They didn't catch Perseus.

There are many art objects with Gorgons.

History.

History is many different periods. Countries have their own history. Cities and towns have their own history, too. 

Sometimes it helps to understand many things.

During centuries and thousands of years, buildings, art, and events have been created.

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Ixion.

Ixion (Ἰξίων) (Ἰξίονος) was a king of the Lapiths (Λαπίθαι) (Λαπίθης) (Lapithai) in Greek myths and legends. His parents were Phlegyas (Φλεγύας) and Perimele (Περιμήλη). Also, Ixion was the ancestor of the centaurs (Κένταυρος) (kéntauros) (centaurus).

Dia (Δία) was his wife. They had children.

Ixion was dishonest. But Zeus granted him purification.

Ixion was in love with Hera (Ἥρα) (Hḗrā) (Ἥρη) (Hḗrē). But instead of her gods and goddesses gave him Nephela (Νεφέλη). 

Then Ixion told people about his relationship with the wife of Zeus.

At the end Ixion was tied to a spinning wheel and sent to the underworld (Tartarus).

There are many pieces of art about this story.

Modern architecture.

Modern architecture or modernist architecture was a style between Art Deco and postmodern architectural movements.

Modern was popular in XX century.

In many different cities and towns there are buildings in this style.

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Great people: Jane Austen.

Jane Austen was an English writer. She was born on December 16, 1775, in England.

Sence and Sensibility (1811) Pride and Prejudice (1813), and Emma (1816) were her famous novels.

Jane Austen died on July 18, 1817, in England.

Sisyphus.

Sisyphus (Σίσυφος) (Sísyphos) was a king of Corinth (Ephyra) in Greek myths and legends. Aelous (Αἴολος) was his father and Enarete (Ἐναρέτη) was his mother. Also, Sisyphus had sibling, wives, and children.

He met with other gods and goddesses.

After the death, Sisyphus rolled a heavy stone up a mountain in Tartarus (Τάρταρος). The stone rolled down. Therefore, sometimes hard and pointless work is called "Sisyphean".

There are many different pieces of art about this story.

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.

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.

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.”

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

Deucalion.

Deucalion (Δευκαλίων) was the character in Greek myths and legends. Prometheus (Προμηθεύς) and Clymene (Κλυμένη) were his parents.

Deucalion was king of Phthia in Thessaly.

Pyrrha (Πύρρα) was his wife. They had several children.

There are different works about this mythological character.

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.

Abstract art.

Abstract art is a type of art. In it used many different figures, such as: oval, line, spots, and flatness.

Abstract art can be seen in drawings, sculptures, and architectures.

This is an art of XX century.

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