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    should definitely be the “ Renaissance ” Michelangelo was the best sculptor in my eyes. Many people disagree with me and say that Da Vinci is the best. But they don't realize that Leonardo was famous for his paintings and matter fact he was not even a sculptor. Michelangelo was the rose and he bloomed in the renaissance blowing up with his paintings and sculptors. Michelangelo was so famous for his paintings and sculptors. He was very important to the people in the renaissance. He had delivered the creativity

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    The time of the Renaissance from the 14th to 17th century was a time where many cultural and scientific advances were made that greatly affected todays innovations, medical and architecture systems. The innovations made by everyday curious people living in the Renaissance helped todays creators to continue with the brilliant ideas and designs. The architecture advances made a huge change in today's buildings and houses that we live and take place in everyday. The domes that Brunelleschi built made

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    The Renaissance period was very different from the Middle Ages. The word “Renaissance” literally means “Re-birth”. This re-birth was caused predominantly by a reintroduction of the classical works; of the Roman-Greco culture, which the previous culture had abandoned. Artists, musicians, philosophers, and theologians alike changed with the Renaissance. Instead of iconic and symbolic art, there arose a new-kindling of realism art: real people in a real world. Nature was brought back to its right

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    philosophers attempted to understand man’s place in the universe. The Middle Ages, however, lacked this metaphysical approach to life: people were not comfortable questioning their surroundings and therefore made little room for cultural innovation. The Renaissance as we know it saw a revival of the classical thought of the ancient Greeks and Romans, paving

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    Chapter 12 Assignment #1: 12.1-12.2 Terms: Renaissance, universal person, secularism, Hanseatic League, House of Medici, Castiglione. Questions (6): 1) What are some similarities and differences between the Renaissance and the Middle Ages that are mentioned in this section of the text? One major similarity between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance is the lack of Classical Culture, characterized by darkness that caused the Middle Ages. Although the Renaissance was known as a “rebirth”, later historians

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    The Renaissance and humanism are intrinsically linked; a person can not learn about one without the other. There are famous names involved in humanism and its growth during the Renaissance, but perhaps none are more notable than Michelangelo. Michelangelo was a Renaissance artist who changed the way we view art and its relationship to the human spirit and experience. Michelangelo’s life and work reveal the true nature of humanism and true spirit of the Renaissance through his personality and desire

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    architecture, history, art, and inventions; most of which emerged during the Italian Renaissance. The Renaissance was a time period concerned with exploring the unknown, expressing creativity by means of art, and using imagination, as well as intellectual curiosity to create techniques and theories. For these reasons, if I were capable of traveling back in time, I would visit the time period of the Italian Renaissance. Banking and commerce provided an abundance of wealth to the Medici family, who then

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    During the Northern Renaissance, the role of the artist and art in Northern Europe during the 16th century followed new patterns of thought that focused on humanism, individualism, skepticism and secularism. The Northern Renaissance artists placed ‘perspective’, an importance of everyday life. The theme of the Northern Renaissance was a return to the Roman culture and Greco classics. However, Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch had a perspective unlike any other painter, until 400 years later

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    The Renaissance is known as the period of rebirth from approximately 1400 to 1600 in European History (Szalay). During the Renaissance many new innovations were developed that paved the way to the modern world. Such developments helped to advance cultures by the expansion of ideas and ways of thinking. Cultural aspects from art to economics were all questioned and changed during this time. The altercations that took place in the Renaissance era have influenced the modern world and has been in many

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    The Renaissance refers to an era of intellectual excitement when art, literature, and science blossomed and groundbreaking humanistic ideas started to make way. The impact of the Renaissance was powerful and has endured for centuries. This important era changed the concept of what it means to be human and emphasized the beauty and intelligence of the individual forming the principle of the Italian Renaissance, the philosophy known as “humanism.” However, what did change man’s view of man in this

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