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    At the surface level‚ Modern and Renaissance art seem to be two unrelated eras separated by centuries and countless stylistic differences. However‚ through the study of art history‚ the relationships between art pieces from two different periods is revealed. The similarities and differences of art from the Renaissance and Modern movements show how historic artists inspire the next generations and emerging artists draw on them for aspects they choose to incorporate or avoid in their own work. Pablo

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    “Not much was really invented during the Renaissance if you don’t count modern civilization‚” (P.J. O’Rourke). The Renaissance era gave birth to many things yet in many ways the most important element was humanism. It redefined Western Civilization. Humanism first came into the limelight in the 14th century when a large volume of classic texts from Ancient Rome were rediscovered. Changing cultural values‚ a burgeoning middle class‚ and corrupt government led many individuals to seek new ways of living

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    The music of the Renaissance and Medieval periods was shaped by its culture in the way that the music expresses what is going on around them. For example in the medieval period people lives were shaped around the church and therefore their music was also. You have the Gregorian chant‚ which was named after the Pope St. Gregory the Great and then you have all of the songs‚ which follow the order of mass. You also have the Christmas carol There is no Rose Today that came out of this era also. The

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    Ydalia Bell Nicole Hill 201320 Hum Renaissance and Baroque April 16‚ 2013 The Ideal Renaissance Man or Woman An ideal renaissance man or woman in the fourteenth and fifteenth century‚ a time when people aspired to be skilled in numerous areas and humanistic education was customary‚ meant you would have to stand out from the rest. Pico della Mirandola theories in Oration on the Dignity of Man sum up the ideal Renaissance man. He proclaimed that individuals face no limits to their development

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    o start of by talking about the early Renaissance Art‚ the definition is that Renaissance “was a period when scholars and artists began to investigate what they believed to be revival of classical learning‚ literature and art”. The first painting that caught my eyes while reading chapter twelve was the Deposition. This piece was painted by Rogier van der Weyden. The reason why I really liked this piece was because it was a very meaningful piece about Christ. The Deposition is a painting of the removal

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    The similarities between the music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance were content‚ expressive‚ and the constant change of development of new genres/sounds and new things being added. The differences were pieces not including every single characteristic into them. In addition‚ the renaissance included composers who were risk takers and innovation. In the middle ages‚ there was nothing but music composed for the church. Composers did want to expand and create pieces with instruments‚ however clergy

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    The Significance of the Harlem Renaissance Starting around the year 1917‚ Harlem‚ New York was bustling with life. Harlem was a diverse area where there little authority on cultural aspects for any one race‚ but in particular the African Americans. The African American people migrated to Harlem‚ and to other major cities in the North‚ in search of better opportunities than those found in the South. African Americans‚ though‚ were still cut down in society and the effects of the segregation in their

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    Arren Quigley Architectural Genius in the Renaissance At the beginning of the Renaissance a problem was apparent in Florence. The city was trying to distinguish themselves from Milan‚ their rival‚ and had built a great cathedral‚ Santa Maria del Fiore‚ with this in mind. The problem was that for 122 years the church had been left open to the elements. No roof had been built. In 1418‚ the town fathers of Florence decided that the time had come to build a roof. The roof had to be grand and tall.

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    The Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance was a time when African-American artistic creativity started to flower in the 1920’s‚ centered in the Harlem community of New York City. It was a literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture. This movement was led by well-educated‚ middle-class African Americans who expressed pride in the African-American experience. They would celebrate their heritage and wrote with defiance and poignancy about the trails of being black in

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    The Renaissance was an enormous cultural movement and it started in Italy during the early 1300s. The Renaissance is referred to have been the transition between the Middle Ages and the modern era. It starts with an increase of religious‚ economic‚ and political changes which goes into areas of science‚ literature‚ and philosophy. In the early Renaissance‚ custom and law went together every day that you couldn’t separate them. The Renaissance spread to Spain‚ France‚ Netherlands‚ England‚ and some

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