Italian humanists of the 16th century defined the contemporary art of Italy as a revival from classic art. ... It is vital that one sees these influences and how they carried on into the beginning of the Italian Renaissance, while also noticing how artists integrated elements of their own personal style. ... Sculpture during the Proto Renaissance period took a turn toward being influenced primarily by Roman sculpture. ... These similarities show that sculpture all over Italy at the time was being made in the same way, using the same influence from other cultures like the Romans and Greeks. A...

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During the Italian Renaissance, social and humanistic values started to be expressed in many forms: literature and architecture but most importantly sculptors and paintings. ... This example suggests a certain value that was brought up in this Renaissance: dependent social classes. ... These values that were so intricately weaved into the Renaissance through art started movements that would change history. ... These paintings express the values that summarized the social and humanistic views of the Renaissance. ...

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Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), or Petrarch was an Italian humanist and poet and is considered to be the first modern poet of the Italian Renaissance. ... Petrarch believed that Italy should continue in the cultural tradition of the Roman Empire and wrote in both classical Latin and Italian. ... During the Renaissance, writers such as Dante Alighiere, Giovanni Boccaccio and Petrarch, along with the Italian painter Giotto were responsible for rediscovering, preserving and disseminating classical literature from the Greek and Romans. ... The Renaissance was a rebirth of civilization after a long...

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