Around the mid-1300's the Middle Ages, was slowly ending and the Italian Renaissance was beginning. The Italian Renaissance was the first age to discover that they were the beginning of a new age/period. ... It was not up until the middle of the 14th century that they realized their cultural movement was something new and unique. ... In the middle of the painting, as seen below is, Venus goddess of love prevailing over the land. ... Most research, though, suggests that the theme is love and marriage (Sandro Botticelli Primavera). ...

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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. ... He is seen as the writer who most clearly had one foot in the Middle Ages and the other in the Renaissance. ... His imitation of Virgil's Aeneid shows the degree to which he relied on Classical literature as a source and guide. ... Literary historian Eugenio Donadoni states that Petrarch was "a precursor of the humanists of the fifteenth century for whom the literature of antiquity was a cult...

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This term describes the radical and comprehensive changes that took place in European culture, bring about the demise of the Middle Ages and embodying for the first time the values of the modern world. ... Most scholars would agree that there is a distinctive Renaissance style in music, literature, and the arts. ... This piece shows an innocent Venus, the goddess of beauty and love, standing on a scallop shell, rising into the world, which was new to her. ... The presentation of Venus, nude, was in itself "an innovation since, as we have seen, the nude-especially the female nude--proscribed...

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In the Middle Ages, people forgot the Greek language and debased the Latin; in the Renaissance people learned to read Greek once more and reformed the Latin that they read, wrote, and spoke. ... By 1526 though, he had begun to separate from Catherine because he had fallen in love with one of her ladies. ... Henry soon found his next love, Jane Seymour. ... She was seeking the company of handsome young man closer to her own age. ... The biggest things in the Renaissance was a person's religion., literature, and art. ...

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q=humanism "A cultural and intellectual movement of the Renaissance that emphasized secular concerns as a result of the rediscovery and study of the literature, art, and civilization of ancient Greece and Rome." - Individualism - http://www.dictionary.com/search?... This showed us the power and influence the Church had during this era, although it had much less power than it did in the Middle Ages. ... From an early age, he began to paint (under the guidance of Verrochio). ... Many say that Leonardo was the greatest individual of the Renaissance, for although he did not clearly represe...

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