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    Lynn White Summary

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    Lynn White Jr. is a medieval historian. He talks about how the western world change how we treat the environment, especially by western religion. White starts by giving the history of technology around the world, for example, the clock. He also talks about the different people who were involved with helping technology growing into what we know now. He goes into his subject of Medieval and it View of Man and Nature. He explain, “This, distribution of land was based no longer on the needs of a family

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    History: The Dark Ages

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    The Dark Ages began after the fall of the Roman Empire. Much of Roman knowledge and culture was lost at this period of time, such as, art, history and technology. The time after the Romans is “dark” because there was no central or strong government events recorded and no inventions came out of this era. This a period of time that began in the year 410, the fall of Rome, and ended in 1095 with the launch of the Crusades. “The Dark Ages” was definitely an appropriate term for this era because of all

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    Islam In Europe

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    From the time period of 1000-1750 C.E, Islam had a tremendous culture, economic, and political impact on Europe. It introduced Europe to new agricultural technology, exchange of ideas, trade goods that would influence Europe development. The cultural impact of Islam in Europe shows the architecture, religious, and the combination of economic and political change. During the high middle ages, western European learned about Aristotle thought and received latin translation from both Byzantine and Muslim

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    interesting person to research. Donatello was well known because he was the greatest Florentine sculptor before Michelangelo (1475–1564) and was the most influential individual artist of the 15th century in Italy. Donatello was born during the Renaissance period in history which began in Northern Italy during the 14th century. It is believed while Donatello was with the Martellis family, he was given his first instructions on becoming a goldsmith. He would become the apprentice of Lorenzo Ghiberti

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    thoughts to world with sort of creativity and inspiration. One main difference between these paintings is the artists themselves. Leonardo da Vinci lived during the Italian Renaissance period. Not only was da Vinci an artist he was also an architect, inventor, and military engineer. He was given the nickname, “Renaissance man.” The Mona Lisa is arguably the most famous painting in the world. Leonardo was moreover an intellect who loved to study science. Science inspired his own work, which

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    The Renaissance era had a huge impact on what the world is today, it was such an important era that it is still taught all around the world. There are museums that are specially dedicated to the renaissance, and even a renaissance festival. So what makes this era so important? What makes the renaissance so unique and how did it affect society so much that it still taught about? The Renaissance means “rebirth”, so that era was based on “rebirthing” society and making it better. Most of the Renaissance

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    Cardinal’s Pietà by Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonrroti Simoni, a master renaissance artist, is well known and revered for his most famous piece of art, la Pietà. Towards the late 15th century, sculptor Michelangelo was presented with the tremendous task to create a statue that would commemorate Rome’s Cardinal Jean de Billeheres’ monument after his death. Today, this remarkable piece of art has made its final resting place in St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City of Rome. La Pietà

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    The “Medieval era” was a time of renaissance and reformation. Through the abstruse cultural expansion of new world trade and the dissolution of the church, a new period of profound intellect and erudition was ushered into Europe. Following the start of the “Middle ages” civilization was engulfed into a delicacy of new arts , self reliance, culinary practices, and architecture, just a few of the various examples of ways the middle ages where enriching and engaging. Although culturally enriching

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    Umberto Boccioni was one of the most noticeable and powerful artists among the Italian Futurists, an art movement that arose in the years before the First World War. Boccioni was educated from 1898 to 1902 in the studio of the painter Giacomo Balla, where he learned to paint in the style of the Pointillists. In 1907, he settled in Milan, where he progressively came under the influence of the poet Filippo Marinetti, who hurled the Futurist movement, which adored the dynamism of modern technology.

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    A center for trade and an impressive seaside empire, Venice was a force to be reckoned with in the early modern era. Venice was a veritable feast for the senses. It was an unusual mixture of religions, social classes. Cultural aspects of Renaissance Venice such as the arts and architecture that came from the period are what drew travelers to the region. Other influences were the unique structure of the republic as well as the power and authority that it reflected. Focusing on the Grand

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