The Renaissance Period, spanning from 1400-1600, was more than just a movement in the type of music that was playing; it was a movement of ideas in almost every art form of the time. ... This spanned to all forms of art and generally took people as a whole by the dissemination of information and the pursuit of knowledge. ... This intonation is not well suited for Renaissance music as only the octaves are in perfect intonation, and vocal renaissance music was especially noted for its perfect fourths and fifths (Norton 158). ... The Renaissance had many iconic composers such as John Dunstable (1...

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Religious conflict between the Catholics and the Protestants had a great effect on art. ... The emergence of an urban middle class with disposable income used art as an investment. ... The Baroque artist began to specialize even further, no longer the universal man of the Renaissance, but concentrating on a particular medium. ... Below is an example of Baroque art at its best in my opinion. ... Below is an example of what Romantic art encompassed. ...

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Walking through the illustrious halls of the Met, I struggled with choosing just one of the many magnificent pieces of art that reside in the distinguished museum. ... Over the course of his life Serra delegated several other commissions to Guercino and was known as a notable art collector in Rome. ... Artists use elements of style and principles of composition all throughout their art in order to express certain mood, convey different ideas, and to emphasize particular subjects in their composition. These styles and compositional rules differ throughout the various periods of art, as well as ...

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In Baroque, classic roman features were used but without the placid order and restraint of the early Renaissance; for instance the facades of early Renaissance buildings were flat, while the concave and convex forms of Baroque facades surge back and forth in depth producing dramatic effects of light and shade, and giving moreover a feeling of crowding, exuberance and extravagance. ... Renaissance architecture uses the strait line- it is sober and calm, while Baroque relies on the multiplicity of curved lines for its effect of motion- it is spectacular and exuberant. It's appeal turned ...

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