The Renaissance was a time of great achievements and cultural change. This "re-birth" marked Europe's transition between the medieval times to modern Europe. According to The Renaissance, the Italian Renaissance began with the merchant class, many whom became patrons of the arts, and included the rediscovery of Greek and Roman science, art and literature (Hunt 8). This movement affected all of Western Europe, but it was Italy 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...

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If one were to gaze upon the statue of "David" by Michelangelo (1475-1564), they would notice the high esteem in which the human body was portrayed. The sculpture almost appears to be a person itself, so real, proportionate, and beautiful that it is uncanny to fathom that it is an interpretation by ...

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The Renaissance is defined as the revival or rebirth of the arts; the period in European civilization immediately following the Middle Ages; conventionally held to have been characterized by a surge of interest in classical learning and values. ... The humanists of the Renaissance rediscovered the Latin and Greek classics (hence the "rebirth" or "renaissance" of the classical world), that humanist philosophy stressed the dignity of humanity, and that humanists shifted intellectual emphasis off of theology and logic to specifically human studies. ...

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The Italian Renaissance was called the beginning of the modern age. The word Renaissance itself is derived from the Latin word rinascere, which means to be reborn. The Renaissance was a rebirth of culture, to put it simply. Many dramatic changes occurred during this time in the fields of philosophy,...

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