Tuscany

The culture of Tuscany during the renaissance was distinguished by its fine arts caused by the Roman Empire taking over of Constantinople, which brought Greek knowledge of math, science, architecture, and the arts to the Tuscan region. In this particular time period, (1429-1519) if it were not for the introduction of new understandings in math and science, the Tuscans would not have had the advancements in art and architecture we use to this day. To further expand on this topic, we must look into

Tuscany was home to the Etruscans until it was taken over by Rome in 351 BC. After the Roman Empire had fallen, the region soon became known as Tuscany and was ruled by a series of different rulers. It then developed into its own political entity with rulers of its own. In the twelfth century, each Tuscan city was beginning to gain its own independence. By the time the Middle Ages came around, major Tuscan cities such as Florence, Pisa and Siena began to gain wealth because of their abundance of

I still vividly recall my mum shouting from the kitchen, "What do you think of Tuscany? A bit of a change for us, don't you think?". "We are going with the cousins, see? this time you won't have to be stuck with old me", she chuckled as though knowing I'd be hesitant. I began to daydream, few recollections of famous Italian landmarks and images sprung to mind, but nothing out of the ordinary. How was Italy really like? Distant shouts of precautious parent calling their children into the shade, to

was once undeveloped woodland, has been turned by human activity into grassy plains. Outside of Catch-22, the island has little habitation. However, the region where Pianosa is located, Tuscany, is a vibrant part of Italy known for many things. With a storied history stretching back to before the Etruscans, Tuscany is known for thousands of years of art and culture. The Romans created great works of public infrastructure including aqueducts that carried water, sewers that carried waste, and roads

Introduction There is a saying that states ‘one either lives to eat or eats to live’ and Italy as a country is ruled by the former. Italy is a culture that is rich and saturated in their traditions of cooking. They take pride in their food and live by the credo that food is only used if it is fresh, local and in season. There has been much debate on what defines Italian food and through research one can see that Italian food is not typical of a specific dish, rather that each region offers a new

Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a craftsman, legal notary, and landlord, and Caterina, a slave to Vanni di Niccolo di Ser Vanni, Ser Piero’s friend and employer, Leonardo da Vinci was born in April 15, 1452 near Vinci, in what is now the Italian region of Tuscany. Many had originally thought that Leonardo da Vinci’s mother was a peasant girl, but 30-year-old research conducted by the late director of the Leonardo Library, published by his son Francesco, suggests a different story: "Archival research has shown

The Medici family had four Popes in the family, Leo X, Clement VII, Pius IV and Leon XI. The last Medici ruler passed away without a male heir in 1737, ending their rule after almost three centuries. By agreement of the European powers, control of Tuscany passed to Francis of Lorraine, who would begin the long European reign of the Hapsburg-Lorraine family.Throughout this time period the Catholic Church looked down upon Galileo because he was trying to prove that the earth isn't the center of the universe

Leonardo da Vinci, one of the most profound artist, and inventors of the Italian Renaissance, was born April 15, 1452 in Tuscany Italy. He is known as the most diversely talented person, and is referred to as the Father of Paleontology. Also known as the Renaissance man, Leonardo was very imaginative an intuitive, he was filled with genius and even superhuman ideas. Although he is known primarily as a painter, his draftsman skills are close to the pique of perfection. With techniques used in art

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1512) Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452 in Anchiano, Tuscany which is now Italy. Leonardo was a painter, architect, inventor, and a student of all things of science. His natural genius crossed so many disciplines that he defines the term “Renaissance Man”. Today he still is best known for his art, including two paintings that remain among the world’s most famous and respected, The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Art, da Vinci believed, was indisputably connected with science

In Under the Tuscan Sun, Frances Mayes's account of her restoration of an abandoned house in the Tuscan countryside blends autobiography with plenty of description and a determined attempt to get under the skin of the local people and their lifestyles, landscape and architecture of the village. The first sentence of this travel book is “I am about to buy a house in a foreign country” (p. 151), which is able to give a sense of the concerns of the book as a whole. The action of buying a house in Italy