Humanism is the rediscovery of classical Greek and Roman culture. ... The suject matter incorporated into Galatea includes the revival of classical stories and mythology. ... This classical myth would have been a familiar writing to the humanists who lived in the quattrocentro. ... There is also the addition of classical drapery which reveals the human anatomy. ... The composition of Galatea reflects classical idealisation. ...

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Dante selects these characters from a variety of backgrounds ranging from Classical literature, mythology, historical figures and people from his own lifetime. ... I feel it necessary and important to first discuss Dante's use of the classical poet Virgil within the Commedia as his multiple functions illustrate a variety of mental attitudes and views of Dante the poet. Dante gives much reverence to these classical poets, they are placed in the first circle of hell and Canto IV of inferno is dedicated to them. ... Dante is respecting these classical poets by making them immortal, dedi...

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Nicolas Poussin and Thomas Cole are two well-known artists, living and producing work during different time periods. Poussin was an artist who emphasized and relished in his works around the ideas of classical rationalism and antiquity working often with historical referencing and mythology. In his ...

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When the new upper class movement, Renaissance, occurred in Italy around the 14th century, a revival of the classical forms originally developed by the ancient Greeks and Romans, an intensified concern with secular life, and interest in humanism and assertion of the importance of the individual began. ... His most famous and recognized work, however, the Birth of Venus uses the combination of mythology and religion, also a popular humanistic idea adopted from the Greeks. ...

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