... attracting and painting open to a wide mixed bag of specialists who needed to realize this popular methodology. The new style of workmanship was financed by rich supporters, including businesspeople, nobles, and the popes. Traditional styles and topics kept on dominaing the time of the High Renaissance in the work of the early-sixteenth-century experts Leonardo da Vinci (1452 "1519), Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 "1564), and ... , did not have any specific dislike to traditional style; surely, various Scholastic scholars of the Middle Ages, for example, Jean de Gerson (1363 "1429), showe...

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... in 1218 and subsequently endowed with great privileges by Pope Leo X, has always been held by a member of the order. After 1620, one of the duties of the position was to allow or forbid the printing of all religious books. Dominicans have held many high Church offices; four popes "Innocent V, Benedict XI, Pius V, and Benedict XIII "and more ... . Other Dominicans were the German mystics Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, and Heinrich Suso, as well as the Italian preacher and religious reformer Savonarola. In the later Middle Ages the order was equalled in influence only by the Franciscans...

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