The Renaissance/Early Modern Period is distinguished from other periods in European history almost entirely in intellectual or cultural terms. ... Beginning in Italy in 1400, it spread throughout Western Europe lasting until 1600. ... Humanism began and achieved fruition first in Italy. ... As its name implies, humanism was a philosophy that was characterized by blending concern with the history and actions of all human beings, and their influences on the world with religious duty. ... Their artwork was refined and masterful, and played a great role in defining the Italian Renaissance. ...

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The medieval ages, a period in European history dating from the 5th to the 15th centuries, preceded the dawn of the Early modern era, and was considered a deviation from classical learning but later reemerged with its connection to scholarship in the Renaissance (Stokstad, 3). ... A basic change from the medieval methods of representing the visible world occurred in Italy during the Renaissance. ... The Renaissance period in art history corresponded to the beginning of the great western age of discovery and exploration, when there was a general desire and curiosity to study all aspects of natu...

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Sexuality in Renaissance Art The Italian Renaissance, which spanned over the years 1350 until about 1550, is usually defined as a rebirth, focusing on the revival of classical learning and an exhilarating sense of renewed human potential in the moral, political and creative spheres. ... The Renaissance was a period of great riches in Italy, substantial profits were made from the Crusades, and Venice made money from the spice trade, but men seldom ceased complaining about the extravagance of women. ... However, during the Renaissance period, the Greek homosexual influence appeared in the ...

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Jacob Burckhardt argued that the revival of ancient learning in fourteenth and fifteenth century Italy gave rise to new scientific and secular values. ... The Renaissance was a period in which Europeans were able to combine two eras in history. ...

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Like so many of his fellow Northern artists he studied in Italy for several years, where he worked under various artists, including Guilio Cluvio, a miniaturist. ... Unlike many of his contemporaries, Bruegel refused to adopt the idealized and more secular figures created by the Italian Renaissance artists. Despite the developments made in Italy, such as figures larger in scale and less of a concern with setting, Bruegel continued to produce paintings in his own style, with small figures in large and detailed settings. ... Since the work is essentially about religious conflicts and the battl...

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Dualism: The Struggle To Find Order and Meaning The struggle to find order in the world and to distinguish humans from other forms of life has been the primal exercise of philosophers throughout recorded history. ... Many predominant modern philosophies in Western civilization are directly traceable to Zoroastrianism through (1) the Greek philosophers Plato, Aristotle, and Zeno, (2) the Roman Stoics, (3) the Manicheans and Saint Augustine of Hippo in the Third Century A.D., (4) the Albigensians of Southern France and Spain in the early Middle Ages, (5) the Italian scholastic philosophe...

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A plague this devastating had never been seen before in history and many historians believe that many would not visit their dying parents as the plague had laced them with fear. ... However, this can lead to the answer that women where also a victim as many were blamed for the spread of the plague, with many prostitutes in Italian towns being targeted and blamed. ...

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