"of his Fall 2013 ready-to-wear collection during February New York Fashion Week. Galliano also received a measure of absolution from the Anti-Defamation League, which lauded his efforts to atone for his misdeeds and wished him well. The ADL again came to his defense after the ""New York Post"" ran a photo of him on his way to the de la Renta show dressed in what it claimed was Hasidic-like garb. Galliano remained backstage at the show, which received favourable reviews amid speculation about his future, including as a possible successor to Mr. de la Renta and that Galliano might take"
"like Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo Galilei and Gerolamo Cardano have been considered as the most recognizable polymaths. During the Renaissance, Italians made substantial contributions in science. Leonardo Da Vinci made significant discoveries in paleontology and anatomy. The Father of modern Science, Galileo Galilei, made key improvements on the thermometer and telescope which allowed him to observe and clearly describe the solar system. Descartes was not only a pioneer of analytic geometry but formulated a theory of mechanics and advanced ideas about the origins of animal movement and perception. Vision interested the physicists Young and Helmholtz, who also studied optics,"
"Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was an Italian polymath, regarded as the epitome of the ""Renaissance Man"", displaying skills in numerous diverse areas of study. Whilst most famous for his paintings such as the ""Mona Lisa"" and the ""Last Supper"", Leonardo is also renowned in the fields of civil engineering, chemistry, geology, geometry, hydrodynamics, mathematics, mechanical engineering, optics, physics, pyrotechnics, and zoology. While the full extent of his scientific studies has only become recognized in the last 150 years, he was, during his lifetime, employed for his engineering and skill of invention. Many of"
"his licentiousness, and love of revenge"" (212). Gerolamo Cardano Gerolamo (or Girolamo, or Geronimo) Cardano (; ; ; 24 September 1501 – 21 September 1576) was an Italian polymath, whose interests and proficiencies ranged from being a mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher, writer, and gambler. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance, and was one of the key figures in the foundation of probability and the earliest introducer of the binomial coefficients and the binomial theorem in the western world. He wrote more than 200 works on science. Cardano partially invented and described"
"Galliano (liqueur) Liquore Galliano L'Autentico, known more commonly as Galliano, is a sweet herbal liqueur, created in 1896 by Italian distiller and brandy producer Arturo Vaccari of Livorno, Tuscany and named after Giuseppe Galliano, an Italian hero of the First Italo-Ethiopian War. Galliano has numerous natural ingredients including star anise, Mediterranean anise, juniper berry, musk yarrow, lavender, peppermint, cinnamon, and Galliano's hallmark vanilla flavour. Galliano uses vanillin for flavouring and sugar and glucose syrup for sweetening. Caramel and tartrazine are used to achieve Galliano's bright yellow colour. Neutral alcohol is infused with the pressings from the herbs except for the"
"Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (; 15 April 14522 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture, and he is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter, and tank, he epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal. Many historians and scholars regard Leonardo"
"children. Eduardo Galeano Eduardo Hughes Galeano (; 3 September 1940 – 13 April 2015) was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, ""global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters"" and ""a literary giant of the Latin American left"". Galeano's best-known works are ""Las venas abiertas de América Latina"" (""Open Veins of Latin America"", 1971) and ""Memoria del fuego"" (""Memory of Fire Trilogy"", 19826). ""I'm a writer,"" the author once said of himself, ""obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia."" Author Isabel Allende, who said"
"Eduardo Galeano Eduardo Hughes Galeano (; 3 September 1940 – 13 April 2015) was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, ""global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters"" and ""a literary giant of the Latin American left"". Galeano's best-known works are ""Las venas abiertas de América Latina"" (""Open Veins of Latin America"", 1971) and ""Memoria del fuego"" (""Memory of Fire Trilogy"", 19826). ""I'm a writer,"" the author once said of himself, ""obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia."" Author Isabel Allende, who said her"
"John Galliano, Alexander McQueen and Stella McCartney, people behind and in front of the catwalk, designers, stylists, editors, show organisers, makeup artists, flaneurs and flanuses and above all the photographers, who he calls “the foot soldiers of fashion”. Even while McInerney was photographing the work of fashion’s most prestigious designers he never abandoned smaller venues and collections. Over the years he has photographed the Saint Martins’ graduation collections, including those of some of most important fashion designers of the twentieth century. Alexander McQueen’s collection Jack the Ripper Stalks His Victims, John Galliano’s Les Incroyables, and Stella McCartney’s star-studded graduation show"
"John Galliano in London. She met Trinny Woodall in 1994, with whom she both proceeded to write a weekly fashion column, ""Ready to Wear"". They founded Ready2shop.com, a dot-com fashion advice business, and wrote their first fashion advice book in 2000, ""Ready 2 Dress"", both of which failed. From there they were commissioned to BBC Two to host the style series, ""What Not to Wear"", from 2001 to 2005. She made regular appearances as a style advisor on ""The Oprah Winfrey Show"" and following her success on the shows, she went on to co-host ""Trinny & Susannah Undress..."" on ITV"
"the other sciences. During the Renaissance Italian polymaths such as Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), Michelangelo (1475–1564) and Leon Battista Alberti (1404–72) made important contributions to a variety of fields, including biology, architecture, and engineering. Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), a physicist, mathematician and astronomer, played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include key improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and ultimately the triumph of Copernicanism over the Ptolemaic model.<br> Other astronomers suchs as Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712) and Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835–1910) made many important discoveries about the Solar System. In mathematics, Joseph Louis Lagrange (born Giuseppe Lodovico"
"Gerolamo Cardano Gerolamo (or Girolamo, or Geronimo) Cardano (; ; ; 24 September 1501 – 21 September 1576) was an Italian polymath, whose interests and proficiencies ranged from being a mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher, writer, and gambler. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance, and was one of the key figures in the foundation of probability and the earliest introducer of the binomial coefficients and the binomial theorem in the western world. He wrote more than 200 works on science. Cardano partially invented and described several mechanical devices including the combination lock,"
"high drama of the other Caravaggisti painters, Giacomo's style is warm and sombre. His most famous work outside Italy, located in Perth, UK, 'Christ Displaying His Wounds', prefers the brilliant colours to the confronting postures of the Caravaggisti, but offers an image whose subject is more directly focused on the viewer, who is thereby invited into the scene. The chiaroscuro (technique of tonal contrasts for three-dimensional effect) is preserved. Giacomo Galli Giacomo Galli, commonly known as ""Lo Spadarino"" (1597-1649) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Papal city of Rome in the early seventeenth century. His family were originally"
"Stephen Jones (milliner) Stephen Jones OBE (born 1957) is a leading British milliner based in London, who is considered one of the world's most radical and important milliners of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He is also one of the most prolific, having created hats for the catwalk shows of many leading couturiers and fashion designers, such as John Galliano at Dior and Vivienne Westwood. His work is known for its inventiveness and the high level of technical expertise with which he realises his ideas. Jones co-curated the 2009 exhibition ""Hats: An Anthology"" for the Victoria and Albert"
"he exhibited at the British Institution, predominantly showing literary and historical subjects, including scenes from the works of Shakespeare and Walter Scott. His portrait of the clown Joseph Grimaldi is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery He is best remembered for his book ""The Art of Painting Portraits, Landscapes, Animals, Draperies, &c., in oil colours"", published in 1840. He was an amateur musician who, unusually for the time, played the antiquated viola da gamba (i.e. the bass viol); an instrument he once owned is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. He married Mary Fraser; two of their daughters,"
"Antonio Giuliano Antonio Giuliano (1930 – 16 June 2018) was an Italian classical archaeologist and academic. Giuliano was pupil of Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli and had been university professor since 1967, he contributed in the 1970s to the institution of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and the founding of the Xenia magazine. He was academic of the Accademia dei Lincei and author of works on classical formalism such as ""History of Greek Art"" (1989); he was also interested in the figure of Giacomo Leopardi. He died in Rome on 16 June 2018 after a brief illness, leaving the 4,600 volumes of"
"Ars Magna is generally recognized as the first modern treatment on mathematics, made fundamental advances to the field; Marcello Malpighi, a doctor and founder of microscopic anatomy; the biologist Lazzaro Spallanzani, who conducted important research in bodily functions, animal reproduction, and cellular theory; the physician, pathologist, scientist, and Nobel laureate Camillo Golgi, whose many achievements include the discovery of the Golgi complex, and his role in paving the way to the acceptance of the Neuron doctrine. The Italians love of automobiles and speed has made Italy famous for its production of many of the world's most famous sports cars and"
"Vincenzo Galilei Vincenzo Galilei (3 April 1520, c. 1520, or late 1520s – buried 1 or 2 July 1591) was an Italian lutenist, composer, and music theorist, and the father of the famous astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei and the lute virtuoso and composer Michelagnolo Galilei. He was a seminal figure in the musical life of the late Renaissance and contributed significantly to the musical revolution which demarcates the beginning of the Baroque era. Vincenzo, in his study of pitch and string tension, produced perhaps the first non-linear mathematical description of a natural phenomenon known to history. It was an"
"been exhibited internationally at the Paris Musee du Costume and The Musee de la Publicite. The 2011 Spring/Summer Haute Couture Collection of Christian Dior by John Galliano is heavily inspired by Rene's works. René Gruau René Gruau (4 February 1909 – 31 March 2004) was a fashion illustrator whose exaggerated portrayal of fashion design through painting has had a lasting effect on the fashion industry. Because of Gruau's inherent skills and creativity, he contributed to a change in the entire fashion industry through the new pictures that represented the already popular designs created by designers in the industry. The benefits,"
"and sold his collections to more than 80 retailers worldwide. The designer has also entered into a joint venture with BIBA Apparels Pvt. Ltd. to further expand the label. In 2012, Arora previewed his jewellery line in association with label Amrapali comprising a range of hand jewellery, neckpieces and pendants. Some of his work was displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, in the Fabric of India 2014-15 Exhibition. Manish Arora is regarded by many as ""the John Galliano of India"". He is known for a rich palette of psychedelic colours and kitsch motifs in garments that combine traditional Indian"
"Keenan, Jennifer Ouellette, and Eugenia Kim, was incorporated into the show. Stephen Jones (milliner) Stephen Jones OBE (born 1957) is a leading British milliner based in London, who is considered one of the world's most radical and important milliners of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He is also one of the most prolific, having created hats for the catwalk shows of many leading couturiers and fashion designers, such as John Galliano at Dior and Vivienne Westwood. His work is known for its inventiveness and the high level of technical expertise with which he realises his ideas. Jones co-curated"
"thinkers, like Renaissance thinkers, were interested in pre-Christian Greek and Roman thought. Galileo, born in 1564 in Pisa, was the most famous scientist of his age, and played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. He is often referred to as the “Father of Modern Science.” His achievements include a greatly improved telescope, which he employed in making astronomical observations supporting the heliocentric theory of Copernicus; and also the experiments he carried out leading to his law of falling bodies, which was of key importance in Newton’s synthesis of his own famous three laws of motion. Bonaventura Cavalieri, a Jesuit"
"a name as one of Italy's leading connoisseurs. His work recataloguing and adding to the Medici collections, first of drawings and then of paintings, was groundbreaking, using new ideas about organisation and completeness to make these the most modern collections of the time—collections in large part the foundation of the Uffizi's art holdings. This meticulous work was based on an ability to distinguish between the hands of different painters—an idea then new and untested, and one that opened up the field of connoisseurship that enabled the attributions of Italian drawings, which are generally unsigned. In his ""Vocabolario"", the first dictionary"
"and publish monographs and articles in the fields of musicology, popular music studies, film studies, semiotics, animal studies (he is possibly best known for his work in zoomusicology and zoosemiotics) and a research platform called ""numanities"", devoted to the rethinking of the role and paradigm of the humanities in modern society. Editor in chief of the Springer book series on numanities, he is also a member of several editorial and scientific boards in journals, doctoral committees and academic associations. In 2006, he was knighted by the Italian Republic for his contribution to Italian culture. He is also the youngest winner"
"portrait of Giambono and little is known of his personal life. He was an artist of the International Gothic style of art prevalent in Europe during the last half of the 14th century and the early years of the 15th century and decorated frames and wood in gold and polychromy. Originally known for his mosaic designs located in the Mascoli Chapel, San Marco, Venice, he is also now recognized as an accomplished panel painter. Giambono died in Venice in 1462. The International Gothic style is characterized by elegant and graceful figures with noble men and women wearing elaborate jewelry and"
"his personal library to the Accademia dei Lincei. Antonio Giuliano Antonio Giuliano (1930 – 16 June 2018) was an Italian classical archaeologist and academic. Giuliano was pupil of Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli and had been university professor since 1967, he contributed in the 1970s to the institution of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and the founding of the Xenia magazine. He was academic of the Accademia dei Lincei and author of works on classical formalism such as ""History of Greek Art"" (1989); he was also interested in the figure of Giacomo Leopardi. He died in Rome on 16 June 2018 after"
"market and the new Alinari photography museum. The Palazzo was remodeled as a residence in the 17th century for the mathematician Vincenzo Viviani, who had been a pupil of the astronomer and scientist Galileo Galilei. Viviani dedicated his home to his esteemed teacher and placed two large scrolls on the building's façade that describe the extraordinary work and achievements of his master. He also added a bust of Galileo to the front facade that crowns the entranceway. Viviani created this monument to Galileo in defiance of the papal ban that forbade honoring the work of Galileo partly because of Galileo's"
"polymaths such as Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), Michelangelo (1475–1564) and Leon Battista Alberti (1404–72) made important contributions to a variety of fields, including biology, architecture, and engineering. Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), a physicist, mathematician and astronomer, played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include the invention of the thermometer and key improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and ultimately the triumph of Copernicanism over the Ptolemaic model. Other astronomers such as Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712) and Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835–1910) made many important discoveries about the Solar System. Physicist Enrico Fermi (1901–54), a Nobel prize laureate, led"
"textile. While at the Royal College of Art, Kearns won a Dolce & Gabbana menswear project in 1998, which resulted in a three-month stint at the fashion house working on both mainline and the D&G line. After graduating in 2000, Kearns was named Menswear Designer at Emanuel Ungaro, after which he was brought in to help launch John Galliano menswear as Head of Menswear from 2002 until 2005. Kearns was Design Director of Menswear from 2005 until 2010. During that time, he worked closely with Alexander McQueen on every menswear show until his last show in January 2010, while also"
"as well."" His most famous work was ""The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy"", published in 1860; it was the most influential interpretation of the Italian Renaissance in the nineteenth century and is still widely read. According to John Lukacs, he was the first master of cultural history, which seeks to describe the spirit and the forms of expression of a particular age, a particular people, or a particular place. His innovative approach to historical research stressed the importance of art and its inestimable value as a primary source for the study of history. He was one of the first"
"d'Alger"", which sold for $179.4 million in May 2015 at Christie's New York. The highest known sale price for any artwork was $300 million, for Willem de Kooning's ""Interchange"", sold privately in September 2015 by the David Geffen Foundation to hedge fund manager Kenneth C. Griffin. Footnotes Citations Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (; 15 April 14522 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography."
"than a painter, he was celebrated as an architect; in this role he was much employed in the design of fortifications, villas, and gardens and is considered one of the most important architects of the Mannerist period. He was also a great mechanic, and an excellent mathematician. In 1562 he travelled to Spain. His first known work is from 1568, the Palazzo di Bianca Cappello in Florence. His main achievements include the project for the new city of Livorno, the decoration of Palazzo Pitti and the Boboli Gardens with the famous grotto, as well as the Parco di Pratolino of"
"originators of the science of history. Pietro Bembo was an influential figure in the development of the Italian language and an influence on the 16th-century revival of interest in the works of Petrarch. In 1690 the Academy of Arcadia was instituted with the goal of ""restoring"" literature by imitating the simplicity of the ancient shepherds with sonnets, madrigals, ""canzonette"" and blank verse. In the 17th century, some strong and independent thinkers, such as Bernardino Telesio, Lucilio Vanini, Bruno and Campanella turned philosophical inquiry into fresh channels, and opened the way for the scientific conquests of Galileo Galilei, who is notable"