Humanism is the new philosophical, literary, and artistic movement. ... These traits are also shown later on in the Baroque Period to depict major storytelling devices for the seventeenth-century. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Marie De France, like Dante, has a distinctive literary form. ... Dante uses symbolism, characters and literary illustration, to impart his central message that the ultimate form of betrayal which stems from "love" (or, to the author, misguided romantic notion) is adultery. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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 ...

• Word Count: 2321
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate