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    The culture of the Middle ages to the Renaissance profoundly affected European life; in art‚ literature‚ and astronomy. During the Middle Ages people did not live very long; so the people believed very strongly in religion. The artist painted all religious figures and the paintings were very dull and did not have any perspective. The Renaissance brought in a new era of paintings and sculptures. The artists started to paint with detail such as expressions‚ muscles in the body‚ and making every feature

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    12 September 2012 Legacies of the Renaissance Beginning in the late 14th century‚ European researchers became involved in learning about the world around them. Their discoveries issued in a dawn of a new age—the Renaissance/“rebirth.” New ideas such as humanism‚ perspective‚ republicanism‚ and advances in fields of art‚ science‚ and more resulted in the nature of the era. The legacy of the Renaissance was art‚ education‚ and technology. The Renaissance was best known for improving its art

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    The Renaissance 1500 – 1650 Renaissance"‚ French for "rebirth"‚ utterly describes the intellectual and economic changes that occurred in Europe and also England. When referring to England‚ the Renaissance made its biggest impact between the years of 1500 and 1600. After I presented this chapter‚ I known that After the Norman Conquest‚ the language spoken in England slowly evolved from Anglo-Saxon to "Middle English‚" a language more recognizable to modern English speakers. These sites offer introductions

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    Renaissance Essay The Renaissance period was that of the rebirth of old values as well as the formation of new cultural and intellectual ideals. These novel ideas shaped the standards and outlooks of European society in many ways. Several of these ways included new tendencies towards secularism‚ humanism‚ and classicism. Through famous political writings and literature of the time‚ such as Oration on the Dignity of Man by Pico della Mirandola‚ The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli‚ The Decameron by

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    Renaissance Art Renaissance is a French word that literally means “Rebirth” and is referring to the rebirth of learning in northern Italy after there was hardly learning in the middle ages. During the Renaissance‚ there was a great renewal of education and ancient times. But‚ the Renaissance was more than just studying works of ancient scholars; it influenced sculpture‚ architecture and painting. In Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa‚ the mysterious smile reflects the newly emerging Renaissance

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    umass.edu/eng2/per/renaissance.html http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/ren.html http://www2.cedarcrest.edu/academic/eng/lfletcher/tempest/papers/LGoldman.html http://www.studyguide.org/brit_lit_timeline_renaissance.htm Renaissance is the idea of rebirth that happened between the thirteen hundreds and the seventeen hundreds‚ the rebirth of older ideas that were once banned by the church begin to reappear reviving older styles of doing things. This includes science‚ philosophy

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    cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5m3nb3ft&chunk.id=d0e9454&toc.id=d0e9454&brand=ucpress 9 Renaissance and Reformation An Essay on Their Affinities and Connections This essay was commissioned by the organizers of the Fourth International Luther Congress‚ held in St. Louis in 1971. I tried to demonstrate in it not only the affinities of the Reformation with the Renaissance but also the European-wide character of the impulses underlying the Reformation. I naively assumed that none

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    Proto Renaissance art‚ 1280-1400 Italian Renaissance painting Giotto‚ Lamentation‚ Cappella degli Scrovegni In Italy in the late 13th and early 14th centuries‚ the sculpture of Nicola Pisano and his son Giovanni Pisano‚ working at Pisa‚ Siena and Pistoia shows markedly classicizing tendencies‚ probably influenced by the familiarity of these artists with ancient Roman sarcophagi. Their masterpieces are the pulpits of the Baptistery and Cathedral of Pisa. Contemporary with Giovanni Pisano‚ the

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    | The Renaissance has been described as consisting of "a rebirth of the human spirit‚ a realization of the human potential for development." It occurred during the 14th -17th centuries in Europe. During the 1400s and 1500s in mostly Italy there was a major change that took place in all aspects of life. This was called the Renaissance and was a movement that helped gives rebirth to culture and the arts. This movement went away from the medieval times that had forced a feudalist system on its

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    The Renaissance From the fall of the Holy Roman Empire to there was a dark age in Europe where all technology and thinking stopped. Europe was a battleground for feudal lords and their knights trying to control the surrounding territories. The dark ages started to end when Pope Urban the 2nd called for the crusades of the holy lands and the city of Jerusalem. The renaissance began in Italy‚ and spreading to the rest of Europe by the 16th century‚ its influence was felt in literature‚ philosophy

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