... mass audience and unlike other modern movements an idea was created rather than a style. He wanted his concept to be expressed in every means possible - painting, sculpture, music, architecture and poetry to reform Italy's traditional culture beyond recognition. Marinetti's Futurism sprung from the modernity and urban life experienced throughout Europe. The Industrialization in Europe had given the machine environmental status yet ... of Futurist Sculpture he expresses his ideals. He felt he had found a way to renovate sculpture. He wanted to emphasis intuition, as Bergson expressed and ...

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... that it affected the most. As Sayre said, " the Renaissance was an age of intellectual exploration, in which the humanist strove to understand in ever so precise and scientific terms the nature of humanity and its relationship to the natural world" (Sayre 7). Although there was a re-birth in both Italy and Northern Europe, they did not occur around the ... that "Renaissance Italians turned to ancient Rome as the model for a great civilization. Lawyers studied Roman law. Others discovered the joy of reading classical books and became interested in poetry, history, and philosophy. Befor...

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... , sculptor and architect. He is considered one of the best painters and sculptors in history, as well as being an outstanding architect and military engineer, and a man of letters and poetry - all the ideals of a renaissance man. By many historians he is considered the "most individualistic artist of the Renaissance", with individualism being one primary "theme" of the era. This is ... his era. Most of his works focused on the themes of humanism - the appraisal of the human form, its centrality and its potential perfectibility's as well as its flaws. In terms of this art, it is said that...

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... a typical Renaissance painting. It is famous for her haunting, inexplicable smile. The Renaissance/Early Modern Period is distinguished from other periods in European history almost entirely in intellectual or cultural terms. The period is more or less considered as playing out what had been set up in the later Middle Ages. European historians overwhelmingly tend to place Europe's major break with ... today, nearly 600 years later, their works are still being studied and enjoyed throughout the world. Michelangelo is known as probably the greatest artist of the Renaissance, excelling in ...

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