... during the Italian Renaissance. The father of humanism, Francesco Petrarch, helped spread humanism. Petrarch admired the writing of the Roman philosopher Cicero . He had a love for language. He studied forgotten classical manuscripts and reintroduced the ideas of ancient writers . He believed these writings could provide models for human excellence. Petrarch believed that education could serve the public good. He felt a person ... . The artists wanted to please their patrons so they looked at the past for models of perfection. Most artists had a deep respect for the past and became inter...

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... the late 14th century and lasted until the early 16th century. Many acient ideas were rediscovered in areas such as philosophy, literature, and science. People became became increasinly aware of classical knowledge and therefore resolved to learn by direct observation and study of the natural world. As a result, religious themes became increasingly important to artists, and with the revived interest in ... ancient ideas came a new variety of subjects which came from Greek and Roman history and mythology. The examples provided by acient buildings and works of art also inspired the develo...

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When the new upper class movement, Renaissance, occurred in Italy around the 14th century, a revival of the classical forms originally developed by the ancient Greeks and Romans, an intensified concern with secular life, and interest in humanism and assertion of the importance of the individual began. Thus, artists ... clear establishment of the elegant images, but keeping the level of chiaroscuro to its minimum. His most famous and recognized work, however, the Birth of Venus uses the combination of mythology and religion, also a popular humanistic idea adopted from the Greeks. With the con...

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