If the change, at first sight, seems minor, we may recall that it took the Italian painters about two hundred years to make an analogous change, and the Italian painters, by universal consent, were the most brilliant group of geniuses any art has seen.

It also makes a fine introduction to the international art form with good examples of Italian and English madrigals plus several French `` chansons ''.

Dürer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, has secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance.

In 1496 he executed the Prodigal Son, which the Italian Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari singled out for praise some decades later, noting its Germanic quality.

In 1450, the Italian art architect Leon Battista Alberti invented the first mechanical anemometer ; in 1664 it was re-invented by Robert Hooke ( who is often mistakenly considered the inventor of the first anemometer ).

The New Wave of French and Italian art directors and their stars were riding high internationally, and he felt Bardot was being undersold.

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She also was a great-grandniece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, and a great-grandniece of art expert Bernard Berenson ( 1865 – 1959 ) and his sister Senda Berenson ( 1868 – 1954 ), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

This was reflected in Constantinople by the construction of the Blachernae palace, the creation of brilliant new works of art, and general prosperity at this time: an increase in trade, made possible by the growth of the Italian city-states, may have helped the growth of the economy.

In 2011, Italian Disney fan forum papersera. net published Don Rosa: A Little Something Special ( edited by Italian Rosa fan Paolo Castagno ), a large folio format, bilingual ( Italian and English ) book about Rosa's life and work, containing interviews with Rosa and articles by many Italian and European Disney artists, Disney scholars, and established art critics commenting on Rosa's work and career, also including many exclusive, rare Rosa drawings and illustrations.

Some scholars also see in Urartian art, architecture, language, and general culture traces of kinship to the Etruscans of the Italian peninsula.

The Etruscans ' objets d ' art are of incalculable value, causing a brisk black market and equally brisk law enforcement effort, as it is against the law to remove objects from Etruscan tombs unless authorized by the Italian government.

Between the late 1970s and mid-1980s, Italian cinema was in crisis ; " art films " became increasingly isolated, separating from the mainstream Italian cinema.

Count Francesco Algarotti ( 11 December 1712 – 3 May 1764 ) was an Italian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector.

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* 1943 – Dante Ferretti, Italian art director and costume designer

El Greco, a respected Greek artist from the period, settled in Spain, and infused Spanish art with the styles of the Italian renaissance and helped create a uniquely Spanish style of painting.

and General the Count Pallavicini, founder of the Austrian branch of that celebrated Italian house, a courtier Littlepage could have met at Madrid in December, 1780.

Although as a result Aston Martin had to make 60 members of the workforce redundant, Gauntlett bought a stake in Italian styling house Zagato, and resurrected its collaboration with Aston Martin.

The term " Casino " is of Italian origin, the root word being " Casa " ( house ) and originally meant a small country villa, summerhouse or pavilion.

In modern day Italian, this term designates a bordello ( also called " casa chiusa ", literally " closed house "), while the gambling house is spelled casinò with an accent.

Now ( from 10 December 2007 ), in order of Italian legislation system, the law is before the House and has to be passed also by the Camera dei Deputati, the second house of Italian Parliament, to become an effective law.

In 1997 the Italian publishing house Editrice ComicArt published a lavish volume about Don Rosa's biography and work related to the Disney characters.

According to the Italian Constitution, after his resignation from the office of President, Cossiga became lifetime senator, joining his predecessors in the upper house of parliament, with whom he also shared the title of President Emeritus of the Italian Republic.

Enrico Arrigoni ( pseudonym: Frank Brand ) was an Italian American individualist anarchist Lathe operator, house painter, bricklayer, dramatist and political activist influenced by the work of Max Stirner.

In January 2007, Italian archaeologist Irene Iacopi announced that she had probably found the legendary cave beneath the remains of Emperor Augustus's house, the Domus Livia, on the Palatine.

He also opened the first public opera house in Rome, and for the Carnival celebrations of 1668, commissioned Antonio Maria Abbatini of the Sistine Chapel Choir to set to music his free Italian translation of a Spanish religious drama La Baltasara.

The French word villanelle comes from the Italian word villanella, which derives from the Latin villa ( house ) and villano ( farmhand ); to any poet before the mid-19th century, the word villanelle or villanella would have simply meant country song, with no particular form implied.

* The abolition of the Italian Senate ( at the time, the senate, as the upper house of parliament, was by process elected by the wealthier citizens, but were in reality direct appointments by the king.

The house, which Jefferson designed, was based on the neoclassical principles described in the books of the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.

A list of alleged adherents was found by the police in Gelli's house in Arezzo in March 1981, containing 962 names, among which were important state officials, some important politicians and a number of military officers, including the heads of the three Italian secret services.

In consequence, a large service sector was established to serve the growing population, and in the first decades of the 20th century, Campinas could already boast of an opera house, theaters, banks, movie theaters, radio stations, a philharmonic orchestra, two newspapers ( Correio Popular and Diário do Povo ), a good public education system ( with the Escola Normal de Campinas and the Colégio Culto à Ciência ), and hospitals, such as the Santa Casa de Misericórdia ( a charity for poor people ) and the Casa de Saúde de Campinas ( for the Italian community, formely known as Circolo Italiani Uniti ), and the most important Brazilian research center in agricultural sciences, the Instituto Agronômico de Campinas, which was founded by Emperor Pedro II.

It was styled by the Italian styling house of Vignale and was a more modern, less rounded shape.

Over time the house expanded from that region to rule almost all of the Italian Peninsula.

Prince Albert designed the house himself in the style of an Italian Renaissance palazzo.

In 1349 the Dauphiné fell to France, while in 1388 the county of Nice passed from Provence to the house of Savoy, which also then held Piedmont as well as other lands on the Italian side of the Alps.

The struggle henceforth was limited to France and the house of Savoy, but little by little France succeeded in pushing back the house of Savoy across the Alps, forcing it to become a purely Italian power.

At the entrance, above the doors, two recesses house the statues of Saint John the Baptist, patron saint of Chenonceau and Italian Masdone in the style of Luca della Robbia.

The Bronx was the setting for the 1983 film Fuga dal Bronx, also known as Bronx Warriors 2 and Escape 2000, an Italian B-movie best known for its appearance on the television series Mystery Science Theatre 3000.

* The film Carlo Goldoni – Venice, Grand Theatre of the World, directed by Alessandro Bettero, was released in 2007 and is available in English, Italian, French, and Japanese.

Influenced by the Italian feature film Cabiria ( 1914 ), Griffith was convinced that feature films were commercially viable.

* 1912 – Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer ( d. 2007 )

Though initially skeptical, De Laurentiis agreed after being presented with the extremely high Italian grosses for the first film.

According to Robert Evans, head of Paramount Pictures at the time, Coppola also did not initially want to direct the film because he feared it would glorify the Mafia and violence, and thus reflect poorly on his Sicilian and Italian heritage ; on the other hand, Evans specifically wanted an Italian-American to direct the film because his research had shown that previous films about the Mafia that were directed by non-Italians had fared dismally at the box office, and he wanted to, in his own words, " smell the spaghetti ".

Lighting from a low angle was used more strongly in the Italian epic film Quo Vadis?

In the Italian Ambrosio companies film La mala planta ( The Evil Plant ), directed by Mario Caserini, which involves a case of poisoning, there is an Insert shot of a snake slithering over the ‘ Evil Plant ’.

Italian film production held up during the war, with long features already established as the main form.

The Italian film industry took shape between 1903 and 1908, led by three major organizations-Cines, based in Rome ; and the Turin-based companies ' Ambrosio ' and ' Itala Film '.

The term Neorealism was used for the first time for Luchino Visconti ’ s Ossessione ( 1943 ): it is considered by many to be the first Italian neorealist film.

With the release of 1958's Hercules, starring American bodybuilder Steve Reeves, the Italian film industry gained entree to the American film market.

Due to the success of the James Bond film series the Italian film industry made large amounts of imitations and spoofs in the Eurospy genre from 1964-1967.

Poliziotteschi ( Italian pronunciation: ) films constitute a sub-genre of crime and action film that emerged in Italy in the late 1960s and reached the height of their popularity in the 1970s.

* 1909 – Riccardo Freda, Italian film director ( d. 1999 )

Agfa began to produce motion picture film in 1913, but remained a largely local supplier until World War I boycotts of popular French, American and Italian film stocks allowed the UFA film studio to flourish, boosting Agfa's orders.

Federico Fellini (; January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993 ) was an Italian film director and scriptwriter.

The Vatican's official press organ, l ' Osservatore Romano, lobbied for censorship while the Board of Roman Parish Priests and the Genealogical Board of Italian Nobility attacked the film.

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The film The Big Blue, directed by Luc Besson in 1988, was inspired by his life story ( and the life story of the Italian diver Enzo Maiorca ); Mayol was one of the screenwriters.