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Gothic Architecture In The Renaissance

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The Renaissance was the following period after the Middle ages in European history. This period was the time of rebirth of the Roman and Greek education where people slowly began to turn back and reflect their ancestral way of mind. The Europeans, whose lives were so centered on the thought of their soul entering the afterlife- and specifically Heaven- has now diminished. They did not do action just because they had to, but they decided to do action for the better quality of human life. Europeans began to focus on the present, logic, reason, and the reality that even though they still considered themselves as Christians, they did not act the same way as they did in the past. In the Renaissance, most medieval idea was altered. The Catholic church in the medieval time was using gothic architecture that was flourishing throughout Europe. It had the flying buttresses that seemed to reach out into Heaven, but by the time the Renaissance came along, it had longed been expired. The cathedrals built in this period was constructed with the classical style of the Romanesque era. Therefore, the ones like the cathedral built by Brunelleschi in Florence does not have the gothic flying buttresses, but instead, the Roman dome. Now, the cathedrals were built so that God has seemed like He was amongst the people. The style of music was also influenced by the time of the Renaissance. Music was no longer under the full control of the Church. Instead, Europeans began to play

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