... impact north of the Alps that architecture and music had, its influence was felt in the dramatic writing of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, the German playwright, and the philosophical writing of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The Baroque had a big impact on painting in Italy, the Low Countries, France, England, and Spain; but its influence was greater on German sculpture where it was assimilated by ... ...

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... life to writing. Before writing Candide, Voltaire went through a lot in his life that probably inspired his seemingly radical views on life, and the rejection of "Optimism-, the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, which sates that the universe is rational. Voltaire found it impossible to justify the actions of the universe after witnessing the great earthquake in Lisbon in 1755 that killed ... ...

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