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Aaron Shaw

Raphael Renaissance Painter Biography - 6 views

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    "Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino was born either on April 6 or March 28 of 1483 and died on April 6, 1520. Today he is known simply as Raphael. He was an architect and Italian painter of the High Renaissance. He was celebrated for the grace and the perfection of his drawings and of his paintings."
Shane Freeman

Why We Fight #1: Prelude to War (1943) - 9 views

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    Why We Fight #1: Prelude to War (1943) 52:21 - 4 years ago The first part of a series of films produced by the United States War Department during World War II. The series explained the reasons for the U.S war effort up to that time. This first part covers the rise of Fascism in Italy, Nazism in Germany, and Militarism in Japan and juxtaposes their political and social systems with that of the U.S. It also portrays the first examples of Japanese aggression in Manchuria and China, as well as the example of Italian aggression in Ethiopia. Supervised and Directed by Frank Capra. Be mindful of the ethnic stereotypes in this film.
David Hilton

Digital Scriptorium - 0 views

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    Another site with scanned images of manuscripts, most of them I think in Latin or medieval French or Italian or Old English. OK, I didn't check. They look cool, though.
David Hilton

Texts and Documents - 3 views

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    Collections of primary sources on the Italian Renaissance, the Catholic and Protestant Reformations and the European and American witch-hunts.
HistoryGrl14 .

Renaissance Humanism - 7 views

  • The return to favor of the pagan classics stimulated the philosophy of secularism, the appreciation of worldly pleasures, and above all intensified the assertion of personal independence and individual expression. Zeal for the classics was a result as well as a cause of the growing secular view of life. Expansion of trade, growth of prosperity and luxury, and widening social contacts generated interest in worldly pleasures, in spite of formal allegiance to ascetic Christian doctrine. Men thus affected -- the humanists -- welcomed classical writers who revealed similar social values and secular attitudes.
  • Renaissance man may indeed have found himself suspended between faith and reason.
  • Human experience, man himself, tended to become the practical measure of all things. The ideal life was no longer a monastic escape from society, but a full participation in rich and varied human relationships.
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  • Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), one of the greatest humanists, occupied a position midway between extreme piety and frank secularism. Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) represented conservative Italian humanism
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    could be a good site for starting a discussion on Humanism with students?...
Alessandro Boninsegna

Our workshop - 8 views

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    The workshops we offer in some Italian museums
David Hilton

Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900) - 1 views

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    An archive of primary sources from the c15th to the late c19th maintained by professors from significant universities in Europe and funded by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council. Easily searchable.
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