... culture today. Additionally, Martin Luther's inspirational journey to disrupt the corruption of the church instilled an entirely new branch in Christianity. Alas, Galileo's studies contributing to the Scientific Revolution aided in creating the most influential movement in Europe. Those intellects with many others alike, worked to create an earth shattering movement. The influential figureheads of the Enlightenment period are cast over vastly different areas of expertise. Some ... studied the heavens surrounding our earth; others created masterpieces not comparable even in this day and ...

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... yet all these influential artists that sprung from the Italian Renaissance depicted a more realistic, truthful world through their work. The Italian Renaissance made a major impact on the rest of Europe, leaving an intellectual and artistic heritage that remains important. The humanists themes that developed in Renaissance Italy helped shape the Reformation and influenced many great European thinkers during the Enlightenment. Its artwork and architecture has defined reality ... and influenced artists well into the 21st century. The new ideas that were developed by Machiavelli surroundin...

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... are underway during his time. Tartuffe is a symbol of the Church. He is not a symbol of the religion, however, but a symbol of the hypocrisy associated with the Church. Dorine represents the masses that are becoming more intellectually free and vocal, Cleante reflects the concepts of reason and logic, which are blooming with the onset of the Enlightenment, while Orgon embodies the established society that is dealing with these changing mores ... foreshadows the emerging Enlightenment where human logic and analysis lead the way; but, at the time, the establishment regards it as merely ne...

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... his value of education. Humanists believed that proper learning equaled a proper being; a civilized society was built on the work of the most intelligent people. This view was not only held by humanists of the day but also by Plato (from the Republic). Because a proper renaissance man would have to study Greek and Latin writings, they also adapted numerous ancient philosophers ... " (Document 5). In addition, Renaissance educators thought that a learned woman could be dangerous and that education could lead to a malicious nature when the woman should be kind, courteous, a trophy for the ...

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... these extremely influential artists that sprung from the Italian Renaissance depicted a more realistic, truthful world through their work. The Italian Renaissance has made a major impact on the rest of Europe, leaving an intellectual and artistic heritage that remains important. The humanists themes that developed in Renaissance Italy helped shape the Reformation and influenced many great European thinkers during the Enlightenment. Its artwork and architecture has defined reality ... and influenced artists well into the 21st century. The new ideas that were developed by Machiavelli surr...

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