Thursday, April 10, 2008

Leonardo Da Vinci!!! Italian character







Leonardo Da Vinci is an important character of Italy, he caused an impact on me because he was one of the greatest inventor-scientist of recorded history, also a painter, a sculptor, an architect and an engineer The numerous skills that he has, gave to him the title of renaissance master.
“Da Vinci was dedicated to discovery of truth and the mysteries of nature, and his insightful contributions to science and technology were legendary. As the archetypical Renaissance man, Leonardo helped set an ignorant and superstitous world on a course of reason, science, learning, and tolerance. He was an internationally renowned inventor, scientists, engineer, architect, painter, sculptor, musician, mathematician, anatomist, astronomer, geologists, biologist, and philosopher in his time.” Encarta.2007- Encyclopedia.
Da Vinci used the nature and the mystic things to show those in their pictures, ideas, and his life. Da Vinci was a strength man with his own opinions, and his own artistic style which was unique and contrary to tradition, he always tried to incorporate movement and expression into his own paintings. “All the personages in his works are painted with great accuracy and detail that it is sometimes said that Da Vinci painted from the bones outward.” We have to think that the works of Da Vinci were and still being very important to the people on the whole world, because these works have been preserved over the hundreds of years since Leonardo's time. Da Vinci has wonderful posters such as The Last Supper, The Mona Lisa, and others displayed in Milan and Paris respectively, are among the most influential works ever created.







Monday, April 7, 2008

NeW dEaDlY sIn In ItAlY!!!


In Italy the pollution is a big problem that afects the Italian people, damages caused by road transport at domestic level are increasing the deaths amount to" 23,000 cases (referred to 1995)." -http://www.foeeurope.org/press/italy.htm- also increase th cardiovascular ailments and respiratory, for that reason the government of Italy is looking for solutions to erradicate the pollution, thinking in make a new rule for permit a less number of cars driving on roads. The pollution also reduce the life expectancy. The research of pollution in this country shows that the pollution surpasses the levels recommended by the European Union, that in a directive establishes a limit of dust particles in the air of 40 micrograms by cubic meter of annual average. Italy has one of the higher densities of car of Europe: "only in Rome there are 76 by each one hundred inhabitants, and the average national is of 56 by each one hundred people.-"http://www.foeeurope.org/press/italy.htm-. I think that Italy has to look for solutions to this problem because is the cause of serious diseases and deaths, so it has to stop the problem with
campaigns and awareness for the people.