If you're going to your eternal rest in the Eternal City, as it was thought of in the Renaissance, then the belief was that you should definitely go out in style. ... The Renaissance was a golden age of church building. Italy while still divided into several different nations, was a rich and lustrous place. ... Every Renaissance church in Italy is filled with masterpieces of Funerary Art. ... By the High Renaissance, led by Michelangelo's tombs, the effigies are often sitting up, and later may stand. ...

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The principal is known as the Carolingian Renaissance, supposed to perceive the blossoming of adapting under the rule of Charlemagne (ruled 768 "814). ... It was in this environment at Avignon that Petrarch (1304 "1374), the father of Italian humanism, initially looked into and advanced established learning. ... The recovery of Greek learning was supported by becoming contact between the Greek and Latin holy places at the Council of Ferrara-Florence in 1438 "1445 furthermore by the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453, after which Greek émigrés escaping the ...

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The gallery label in the museum provided important objective information about the piece including the fact that the piece was created through the commission of Cardinal Giacomo Serra, the papal legate to Ferrara (city in northern Italy). ... For example pre-renaissance elements of composition are inherently divergent than those of the Baroque period, just as the styles used in the Italian Renaissance are notably different than those in Germany during the Northern Renaissance. Taking into account all of the stylistic and compositional elements that appear in the piece, Samson Captured by the P...

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The Baroque rapidly developed into two separate forms; the strongly Roman Catholic countries (Italy, Spain, Portugal, Flanders, Bohemia, Southern Germany, Poland and Austria) tended toward freer and more active architectural forms and surfaces ; in Protestant regions (England, Netherlands, Northern Europe) architecture was more restrained and developed a sober, quiet monumentality impressive in its refinement. ... In painting and sculpture this was achieved by means of highly developed naturalistic illusionism, usually heightened by dramatic lighting effects, creating an unequaled sense of the...

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