Italy 2
Title: Italy 2
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 1421 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Italy 2
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 1421 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Italy (Italian Italia), republic in southern Europe, bounded on the
north by Switzerland and Austria; on the east by Slovenia and the
Adriatic Sea; on the south by the Ionian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea;
on the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Ligurian Sea, and the
Mediterranean Sea; and on the northwest by France. It comprises, in
addition to the Italian mainland, the Mediterranean islands of Elba,
Sardinia, and Sicily and many lesser islands.
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commission,
to paint an altarpiece for the chapel of the Palazzo Vecchio, the
Florentine town hall, was never executed. His first large painting, The
Adoration of the Magi (begun 1481, Uffizi), left unfinished, was ordered
in 1481 for the Monastery of San Donato a Scopeto, Florence. Other
works ascribed to his youth are the so-called Benois Madonna (1478?,
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg), the portrait Ginevra de' Benci (1474?,
National Gallery, Washington, D.C.), and the unfinished Saint Jerome
(1481?, Pinacoteca, Vatican).