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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 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 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 Renaissance was a crucial part of the change from the hierarchy and social order that dominated “The Dark Ages” to the social mobility that developed when the “Early Modern Period” began. Due to a myriad of factors, such as the Bubonic plague, which had devastating effects on the population during the Late Middle Ages. This combined with the nobility’s need for peasant labor resulted in common people demanding higher wages and increasing the prices of their products. Likewise, skilled workers

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The renaissance education changed as time went on. The views, values, and purposes went through a metamorphosis throughout the years of the renaissance.In the beginning of schooling around 1450, the focus was reading and writing. Then people started to take a more humanist perspective and put their values in knowledge more and being experienced in multiple areas. Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini was a humanist from Italy who later became a pope. In 1450 he said that reading and learning from others

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“The Renaissance is studied by the name of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events”- Arthur Erickson. This quote it accurately relates to many artists and architects as they shaped the world that we live in every day. The Renaissance birthed the great talents from artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo who brought a life like perspective of art and set a trend of using light and shadowing to bring the artwork to life. This allowed artist to

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Art of the RenaissanceParadoxically, in the church’s authority over their community crumbled leaving a fragile society. During this period a cultural movement spread readily. This was espsicaily due to the geographical link between the countries allowing their to be a continues cultural flow back and forth. Since Italys was location on the Mediterranean Sea they were able to develop the first port, which allowed for them to engage in trade and commerce as well as the spread of idea. A new

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Renaissance is a time period that starts a transitional cultural movement in Europe between medieval times and modern times. It means rebirth and begins in 14th century and lasts into the 17th century. Through out this time, many aspects were influenced by this cultural movement, such as art, music, science, religion and politics. Renaissance was marked by the humanistic revival, and people in Europe used this method in study, in order to searched for realism and human themselves in art. There are

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The Renaissance - A historical watershed‘Renaissance’ a word derived from Italian word ‘renascere’ meaning rebirth in any form. The Renaissance could be viewed as a time of transition from medieval to modern view of man and the world. This cultural movement roughly spanned from 14th to 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of the Europe. From a fashion student eye, I see this era as a turning point in the history. People came out

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THE RENAISSANCE AND THE CONCEPT OF SPACE:The idea of freely evolved cities and open spaces changed to a planned environment in the Renaissance, wherein the city was preconceived and designed. The Renaissance focussed on appearance and this led to a massive increase in the scale of open spaces. The city was no longer freely evolved, but became a work of art. The spaces in between buildings were large squares and plazas focusing on spatial effects, perspectival view corridors and geometric volumes

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