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    Early Renaissance to High Renaissance The Renaissance is the period that immediately follows the Middle Ages in Europe ancient Rome and Greece. Growing prosperity and reduction in political stability accompanied by new technologies, the printing press, astronomy and the exploration and discovery of new continents was supplemented by a blossoming of philosophy, literature, and art. Painting style, decorative arts, and sculpture arose in Italy in the 14th century, reached its peak in the late 15th

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    The Italian Renaissance was one of the most colorful, vital, and exciting times in history. Renaissance eventually comes from the French word "Renaistre," meaning "to be born again." The Renaissance was a revival or a rebirth of cultural awareness and learning among art, law, language, literature, philosophy, science, and mathematics. This period took place between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. The Renaissance in Italy flourished. What was the Renaissance and why did it happen? The Renaissance

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    that took place during this time. However, renaissance writers and artists also created new styles and ways of thinking. It started in Italy and then spread to all of Europe. It began in Italy for several reasons. For one thing, Italy had been he center of the roman empire. As a result, artists and writers of Italy didn't have to go far to revive the styles from this classical period. One of the most important and influential cities of the early renaissance was florence. Its located in northern Italy

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    The time between the early Renaissance periods and the modern times in art was a very dynamic substance because it was shaped by the people and societal norms that ruled it. Some things stayed the same and some things changed at a moment’s notice based on the cause. Unlike the previous era, not all of these movements occurred in Italy. The late renaissance was a period of declining Catholic control, the Baroque period spreading to France and other parts of Europe where it festered, and then brand-new

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    The topic I am going to talk about is Renaissance that in simple word means ‘Rebirth’ or ‘Resurrection’. It was a period of 14th to 17th century of European history in which art was re born in the context that it made a bridge from the middle age to the modern age art. Even new continents were found during the period. The middle ages had a very dull and a very pale way of sculpting. And the very raw nature of sculpture during that time was to portray a famous being or a character or to reflect an

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    The age of the Renaissance era is known for its beliefs more on the individual. New discoveries in science contributed to people's beliefs in nature and of the body. This led to a focus more on the individual rather than any belief in deities or gods. The contributions of science greatly impacted art in this way: displaying the beauty of the individual rather than the glorification of a god. During this time, the Roman Catholic Church focused on biblical depictions to those who weren’t able to read

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    The cause of the renaissance started in The Middle Ages, which began around 500 AD finally came to an end around 1450 AD. - Though the beginning of the Renaissance, which signaled the end of the Middle Ages, occurred in the city-states of Italy, the same reasons that caused the Renaissance to begin in Italy caused it to appear in the rest of Western Europe. The conditions that led to the Renaissance in Italy are as follows Because of the Crusades, and the new trade routes, Europeans began to come

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    The Renaissance (rebirth), was a time in which all art became more personalized and represented more than we see. There were two major stages in the Western European/ Italian Renaissance: Early Renaissance and High Renaissance. It gave patrons a new outlook on art and the world. Styles such as Mannerism, Fresco, and Parietal help advance art in western Europe. Most of the Renaissance works were religious,or had had something to do with the ancient times (ancient greece and roman culture). Not only

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    Renaissance The Renaissance was not only a reawakening of the arts but to a very large degree a reawakening of the sciences. All the fields of science that existed at the time were growing and some people were simultaneously making significant contributions in multiple fields of science and in the arts – we still keep the term “Renaissance man” in the English lexicon to refer to a person who is exceptionally skilled in the arts and the sciences. The reawakening of science at this period was best

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    Renaissance The Renaissance era was a time of great change in music, art, literature, and science. The Renaissance, which lasted from the 1300 's to the 1600 's began in Italy and spread throughout other countries to England, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain. During this time, there was a great deal of agricultural economy and the church were dominate and transform society. The word Renaissance come from the Latin word meaning “rebirth.” During the Renaissance period many artists

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