Art and Architecture
By Hailey Chung
Hailey Chung is a freshman in Signorina Zoino’s Italian II Honors course at Cresskill High School. She wants to pursue Italian studies throughout high school and is interested in continuing them during college. Outside of school, she likes to swim, write, and listen to true crime podcasts.
The Birth of Venus is a painting by Sandro Botticelli. Botticelli was an Italian painter who was born in 1445 in Florence. It is Venus, a deity, emerging from the sea. This painting depicts Venus immediately after she emerges from the water and is born from the sea foam. It is from the Renaissance. It is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. I love it because I love Roman mythology, and Venus is a Roman deity. Venus is the deity of love, beauty, and fertility and is the Roman version of Aphrodite.
School of Athens is by Raphael, an Italian painter. He painted this painting as a commission to decorate the Raphael Rooms in the Vatican. I saw the School of Athens last year; I was not allowed to record in the room, but the painting is truly beautiful.
It has a stunning amount of detail! I was very surprised that Raphael managed to paint it as a fresco, which is on a wall.
Traduzione Italiana
La Nascita di Venere è un dipinto da Sandro Botticelli. Botticelli è un pittore italiano ed è nasce nel 1445 a Firenze. È Venere, una divinità, emerga dal mare. Questo dipinto raffigura Venere immediatamente dopo che emerge dalle acque e nasce dalla schiuma del mare. È da il Rinascimento. È in la Uffizi Galleria a Firenze. La amo perché amo mitologia romano, e Venere è una divinità romano. Venere è la divinità dell’amore, bellezza, e fertilità, ed è la versione romano di Afrodite.
Scuola di Atene è da Raphael, un pittore italiano. Dipinge questo dipinto come commissione per decorare le Stanze di Raffaello in Vaticano. Ho visto Scuola di Atene l’anno scorso; non mi è stato permesso di registrare in sala, ma il dipinto è davvero splendido.
Ha una quantità incredibile di dettagli! Sono rimasto molto sorpreso dal fatto che Raffaello sia riuscito a dipingerlo come un affresco, cioè su una parete.
Un detto italiano preferito è “Natale con i tuoi, Pasqua con chi vuoi” – “Natale con la famiglia, Pasqua con gli amici.” Da notare l’uso delle forme plurali familiari, “tuoi” e “vuoi”, non quelle formali “Lei” e “Loro”. Ciò che è divertente nella lingua italiana (beh, cosa non è divertente? 
Looking back, humanity has made a truly impressive development into our living conditions during these years. From my point of view we should be really thankful to people who took part in this development such as architects, designers, and others, because of them we are living in astonishing countries, cities, houses, and so on.Comparing American and Italian design in architecture, furniture, and interior may be tricky for me, as I am not really know with them, but from my perspective the American houses are more associated with 2-floor building with a big enough garden, and big metropolitan cities with a lot of unbelievable sky sketchers, while Italy has a lot of little minimalistic houses, sometimes near or on the water, tiny streets and a lot of historical buildings.
Some italian architecture:
American furniture and design is characterized because it has many cultural influences and diversity which has evolved reflecting the diversity evolving in aesthetics.
