... was during this time that Europe was busy pulling herself out of the economic stagnation of the Middle Ages. With this new financial growth came political, scientific and social energy unlike any experienced before. Artistically, it was a time of firsts such as the first time oil paint was used; the first time symbols and real-life events were represented together in ... of humanity, and that humanists shifted intellectual emphasis off of theology and logic to specifically human studies. In pursuing this program the argument goes that the humanists literally created the European Renaiss...

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... used in the Romanesque buildings. The Abbey Church of St. Denis is similar to that of the Romanesques Church of St. Sernin in Toulouse. Ribbed vaults had now been uniformed unlike the ones in St. Sernin. The Church of St. Denis conveys a sense of interior weightlessness and lighteness. The structural elements in Romanesque were reversed. The lightest elements of the structure ... outside. The ribbed vault allowed luminosity, a quality that is associated with spirituality. In the Church of St. Denis, an abundance of natural light flowed in through the large, tall windows unlike the earli...

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... renaissance music that was centered towards the north (France and the area now occupied by the Netherlands). New ideas, like interplay between the various instruments in an orchestra, became prevalent, unlike the monophonic music of previous years. As new instruments were incorporated into orchestras and compositions became increasingly more instrumental interplay had an increasing new role in the new baroque music ... that governed the baroque music. Instead new composers chose to compose a new form of music that was happy and jubilant to mirror the times of great exploration and hope ...

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... throes of medieval Feudalism and Manorialism, all commerce had stopped, but merchants and artists in northern Italy had maintained trade and commerce activities with both the Byzantine East and the European West. By the 11th century Italy dominated commerce in the Mediterranean and Western Europe, this enabled them to amass great wealth and a certain sense of self-confidence. The Italians, through ... organization and cleverness exploited their advantages, and by the high Middle Ages strong, wealthy and independent city-states, unlike the manors of Europe, had evolved. In addition, Ital...

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