Renaissance Magazine

May 1550

THE RENAISSANCE

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Learn about our Exclusive
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Table Of Contents

Page 1: Table Of Contents
Page 2: AD
Page 3-4: The Sisitine Chapel
Page 5-6: Leonardo da Vinci, Death
Anniversary
Page 7-8: Nicolas Copernicus
Page 9-12: Interviewing Titian, A
Renaissance Artist
Page 13: Literary Review By John Donne

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THE SISTINE CHAPEL

The sistine chapel The chapel is a rectangular
shape and each of the two walls
Come and visit the Sistine has a 6 large arched windows.
Chapel to see the most majestic “The Creation of Adam” wasn’t
sights, “The Creation of Adam””. the only painting painted at the
“The Creation of Adam” is a Sistine Chapel, there were the
famous painting created by the “The Creation of Heavens and
great Renaissance Artist, Earth”: followed by “The Creation
Michelangelo, and it took him 4 of Adam and Eve” and the
years to paint, from 1508-1512. “Expulsion from the garden of
The Sistine Chapel was decorated Eden”. The Sistine Chapel’s
with his unique frescoes that frescoes are separated into 6
relates to religion. “The Creation categories. The 6 categories are,
of Adam” illustrates the story “Ancestors of Jesus, “Three stories
where the Lord created Adam and of Noah”, “The creation and
Adam came in connection with the downfall of Adam and Eve”, “The
Lord. The Sistine Chapel is Creation”, and finally the
located at the Vatican City and it “Prophets and Sibyls”.
was opened to the public at August Michelangelo didn’t enjoy doing
15, 1483. The Chapel is 40.23 this project because it was
meters long, 13.40 meters wide, uncomfortable that he wrote a
and 20.70 meters tall. poem about his misery.

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He stood on wood He is also homosexual and he
scaffoldings and stroke colors on is attracted to young men, as
the walls with the brush on his suspected by some people. He was
hand. At first, Michelangelo was less interested in schooling than
working really hard in Pope Julius observing painters. In his early
II’s marble tomb in 1508. Then life, his childhood was terrible
Julius convinced Michelangelo to because his mother died when he
paint the ceiling of the Sistine was six years old. Soon, his dad
Chapel. Why visit the St. Peter’s tried to convince him to run the
Basilica instead of the great Sistine family business he expressed no
Chapel? Come on down and engagement in running it To
examine the most beautiful expose him to frescoes,
frescoes you’ve ever seen in you Michelangelo’s father apprenticed
pitiful life! him about it when he was 13 years
old. After that, the art legend was
More about Michelangelo born. Michelangelo also made his
own paint style and it is about
Michelangelo was born on creating figures with clear
March 6, 1475 at Caprese, Italy. outlines. As a warning, do not
He had other jobs beside being a mess with him because he has a
painter. Michelangelo was a bad temper and he’s devoted to his
sculptor, poet, and architect. The religion. The man is now living in
marvel flee to Bologna to continue Florence, Italy if you want to meet
his study after political strife in the him or witness him create another
aftermath of Lorenzo the legendary painting or sculpture.
Magnificent’s death. At 1495, he
began sculpting and modeling his 4
styles based on classic
masterpieces.

Leonardo Da Vinci Death Anniversary

Today we are celebrating the thirty-first year
anniversary of Leonardo Da Vinci’s death. He was mostly
known for his paintings. Some of his more famous ones are
the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, Vitruvian Man, ect.
Leonardo was a very curious man, he wanted to know
everything about everything. He was examplarery at
studying. Besides being an artist he was also an inventor.
His best known inventions were the Parachute, the
Clock,and Scuba Gear. He created many more inventions
but most individuals recognise him for these 3
creations/tools. Many people believe that Leonardo Da
Vinci is the most talented person to have ever lived
because of his many passions. Leonardo was full of
Humanistic values and all of his work was inspiring,
impressive, showed perspective, and has an excruciating
amount of detail. Leonardo Da Vinci was born in 1452 in a
town near Florence. When he was about 14 his father took
him into Florence to work as an apprentice for the artist
Verrocchio. There he painted one part of “The Baptism of
Christ”. He painted one of the angels holding Jesus robe. It
is said that it was so beautiful that Verrocchio took a step
back and decided never to paint again. Leonardo did not go
to a university to study, but he studied by looking at the
world around him. Leonardo often wrote so that you can 6
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understand it while holding it up to a mirror. Some people

thought that his writing was backwards because he was

trying to hide his research. But in reality it was just easier to

write backwards because in that time quills were cut in a

certain way that is harder to write with if you are left

handed, but it is much easier to write backwards with the

quill. It is highly thought that he was going to publish his

notebooks but unfortunately they were not published in his

lifetime. Some of the topics in his notebooks were the

geology of the earth, the anatomy of the human body

(Leonardo was given dead bodies by a hospital. He

dissected dead bodies and carefully drew many of the

parts. His drawings of bones and muscles were to help

other artists to paint the human body properly.)The

anatomy of horses, cows, dogs, and bears.The expressions

on human faces.The flight of birds and the weather and its

phenomena.The way that water flows.The botany of plants.

Light, shadows, mirrors and lenses. Because of his

research on these subjects we are now in possession of

these great skills. Such as being able to draw more realistic

figures. In his old age Leonardo lived in France with Count

Melzi his faithful friend and apprentice. His last painting was

“John the Baptist”, the king gave him a pensiun of 10,000

scudi. When Leonardo Da Vinci was dying he asked to see

a priest so that he could receive Holy Communion. King

Francis and Leonardo became close friends it is said that

King Francis held Leonardo’s head as he was dying.

Leonardo had never married and had no children of his

own. In his will, he left his money, his books and most of his

paintings to Count Melzi. 6

and Jagiellonian. When he began

college, he adopted the latin form of

NICOLAUS his name, Nicolaus Copernicus. By
COPERNICUS
the age of 30, Copernicus had
Nicolaus Copernicus was born
February 19 of 1473 in the city of completed all his studies in Italy. He
Torun, in Royal Prussia, in The
Kingdom of Poland. Being Polish, then became his uncle’s secretary.
his birth name is Mikolaj
Kopernik. He was named after his Nicolaus is fluent in both German
father. His father was a merchant
and his mother was the daughter of and Latin. He is also fluent in Polish,
one. He was born into a wealthy
and influential family as the Greek, and Italian, though his works
youngest child of four. Just
recently, his sister Barbara, a are primarily written in Latin. He is
Benedictine Nun, passed away. At
the age of 10, he was taken in by a creative man and a freethinker. He
his uncle after the death of his
father. At 18, he attended the is very skilled at math and
university of Krakow where he
studied astronomy, philosophy, observation. Throughout his studies,
mathematics, and the sciences. He
also studied religious law and Copernicus found he didn’t agree
practical medicine at universities
with some of the material he was
including Pauda, Bologna, Ferrar
being taught. One of the materials in
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particular was the geocentric theory

adopted by many because of the

endorsement of the church. This was

the theory than the Earth was the

centre of the universe and everything

revolved around us. Copernicus,

however, adopted a different idea.

According to his theory, the Earth

and many other unknown planets

revolve around the sun, hence the

name. This theory is called the

heliocentric theory. ‘Helio’ meaning

sun and ‘centric’

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meaning centre. While working for introduction to an argument that 8
his uncle in the years from 1503 to the mathematics should be reason
his uncle’s death, he developed enough to accept his theory.
this idea further.

This theory had been adopted
by others before him, but
Copernicus turned this theory to a
reality in predictive geometrical
astronomy. Despite his great
discovery, he did not share this
theory with many. This was
because it contradicts the
teachingof the church. The Bible
suggests that the sun moves while
the Earth remains in its place, thus
the name geocentric. ‘Geo’
meaning earth. However, Nicolaus
Copernicus created a 40 page
manuscript known as little
commentary or commentariolus,
which he shared with his friends.

In 1543, Copernicus released
his work supporting his
heliocentric theory. He wrote a
book known as the revolutionibus
orbium coelestium. This book
outlined the theory with not only
its hypothetical value but with its
mathematical and geometrical
integrity as well. This was
dedicated to Pope Paul III as an

Interviewing Titian, A
Renaissance Artist

1. At what age were you sent with your uncle to find an
apprenticeship with a painter?

A: At the age of about 10-12, I was sent to find an
apprenticeship with my uncle and my brother soon
followed me.

2. In your life as a painter what was one thing you never
tried and or attempted?

A: I never attempted engravings but I was very interested
in printmaking.

3. Before you married Cecilia what did she do for her
job?

A:Before I had married Cecilia she was a housekeeper
and a mistress for a total of 5 years.

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4. How many total children do you have and which one
out of all of them is your favorite?

A:I have a total of 4 children (2 boys and 2 girls) and my
favorite child would be Orazio who soon grew to be my
assistant.

5. What was your father’s job?

A: My father otherwise known as Gregorio Vecelli was
the superintendant of the castle of Pieve di Cadore and
he also managed local mines.

6. As a painter what was one of your big
accomplishments or achievements?

A: As a painter one of my accomplishments was in the
year 1516 in which I was named the official painter of
Venice and I was also named court painter of Italy. Not
only that but I also became the first ever painter to
become a knight.

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7. What were you most known for?
A: I was well known for the color and brushwork found
in my paintings.
8. What made you become such a great artist?
A: in order to have reached the level of where I am
today I trained with many famous painters and
captured their styles of work and art.
9. What did you study in your younger years as an
artist?
A: I studied examples of Rome and Florence as a
young artist.
10. Did you ever have a nickname and if so what was it
and why were you called that?
A: Many people nicknamed me da Cadore which was
taken from my birthplace.

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11. What was one of your earlier works of art and or
paintings?
A: One of my earlier works of art was a fresco of
Hercules which can be found on the Morosini Palace.
Not to mention the Gypsy Madonna which can be found
in Vienna and the Visitation Of Mary and Elizabeth
which can be found in Venice.

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Literary RevieW:”No Man death diminishes me, Because I am
involved in mankind. And therefore
Is An Island”BY John never send to know for whom the bell
tolls; It tolls for thee.” This shows the
Donne Figurative language metaphor because
it is implying that when a person dies a
Author’s Biography part of you also dies because we are all
one. Another piece of evidence can be
John Donne was born on January 22, 1572 found in stanza 1 lines 4 and 5 in which
and later died on March 31,1631 making him it states,”If a clod be washed away by
a total of 59 years old at the time of his death. the sea, Europe is the less,” This show
He was born in London, England and is the figurative language metaphor
known as a metaphysical poet. His family was because it is saying that if someone
very rich and they had taught John Donne passes away we all become less and
about Catholicism during a time period in less.
which Catholicism was thought of as bad. He
attended Oxford Cambridge University and Humanistic Ideas (C.E.R)
later on after his death some of his poetry was
published. “No Man Is An Island” is full of
humanistic ideas. One piece of
One sentence Summary evidence can be found in stanza 1 lines
2 and 3 which states,”Every man is a
“No Man Is An Island” by John Donne talked part of the continent, a part of the
about how a man is never really alone when it main.” This shows humanism because
seems like everything is gone because they it is stating that every human on this
have others to depend on for help in which planet is connected to one another and
may help the case of the needy. that we feel the same pain as others
around us because we are all one.
3 Pieces Of Specific Figurative
Language Found In The Poem Do You Recommend This
Poem To Others
John Donne’s poem “No Man Is An Island” is
rich in Figurative Language. For example in Yes, I would recommend this poem to
stanza 1 lines 1 and 2 it states,”No man is an others because it shows how we are all
island, entire of itself; Every man is a piece of one and how we are all connected to
the continent…”This shows the Figurative one another. I would also recommend
Language metaphor because it is comparing this poem to others because it shows
man to a piece of the continent. Another how we are supposed to treat one
example can be found in stanza 1 lines 9-12 in another because we are all part of a
which it states,”Any man’s whole and or all one.

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