... Comedy. Supposedly he used the passage where Dante and Virgil come across virtuous pagans including heroes, poets, and philosophers as a model for his painting. The painting is an academic building with rounded arches, intricate detailing, statues, and Greek and Roman "students." The Roman arches of ... the University seem to symbolize all the wisdom bounded together under one roof. The painting is one-point perspective with the two philosophers, one pointing to the sky and ... new culture emerging from a desolate stage. They both are staged after classic inventors" works. The humanist...

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... therefore whatever was boorish or sacrilegious was destroyed. A change came from Italy in the mid 1400s when Masaccio burst onto the scene embodying all the qualities that make the Renaissance the rebirth and rediscovery of Greco-Roman art and literature. However the Renaissance did more than rediscover Greco-Roman ... the trade. Very close and friendly relations between the goldsmiths and the painters existed in that time, so that Sandro, who was a creative young man and devoted to drawing, became attracted to painting, and resolved to take it up. His father, who saw his budding talent,...

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