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Italian and Northern Renaissance Blog Assignment by Jasper Carpenter.

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  Italian and Northern Renaissance Blog Assignment by Jasper Carpenter.           The Sistine Chapel forms part of the Vatican in Italy and was named after Pope Sixtus IV. The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is particularly famous for the incredible paintings by Renaissance artist Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarotti Simoni, known simply by the mononym Michelangelo . He was born in Caprese, a village in the Republic of Florence on March 6, 1475, and became a painter, sculptor, poet and architect during his lifetime. The paintings - also known as frescoes - on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel are some of his best-known works, composed of nine scenes from the Book of Genesis, including one called The Creation of Adam (Creazione di Adamo). Frescoes are a particular artistic technique used in mural paintings that are executed wet lime plaster. Water is combined with dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, eventually becoming part of the wall as it drie...
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Teaching you how to make a blog

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 Hello readers, My name is Jasper Carpenter. I'm from Anchorage, Alaska and have been living here for my whole life. I'm 20 years old and currently a sophomore at UAF. I'm looking to pursue a career in criminal justice in the future. A few hobbies I like to do in my free time include hiking, reading, and playing basketball at the local gyms. As for my relationship with art, I'd consider myself very inexperienced. In elementary school whenever we had free time during class I'd find myself drawing with whatever supplies the school had to offer. I liked to draw characters from shows I watched growing up, such as cartoon characters like Perry the Platypus or perhaps my favorite super heroes like Iron Man or The Flash. As. I grew older and busier, I found myself drawn away from art unless it was part of a class assignment.                                               ...
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