The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are considered a time of transition entering the Middle Ages and the Modern Age. ... To avoid this overlap, a distribution of students started, according to their level of knowledge, that with the passage of time resulted in the separation of students by age. ... Over time, the faculties of arts were transformed in schools, thus giving rise to the modern high school. ... And in the sixteenth century, together with elementary schools, high schools existed (Latin) and middle schools (schools and gymnasiums), where teaching had a duration of 8-10 years (for ...

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Seen as a bridge between the Middle Ages and the modern era, The Renaissance also marked a cognitive shift from a religious perspective to a more intellectual and social focus. ... Western Europe had been unified by one Church during the Middle Ages, which was controlled in the ancient city of Rome. ... As previously mentioned, art and learning during the Middle Ages were centered on the church and religion. ... These individuals also purchased and collected artwork in a culture where the economy was much better than during the Middle Ages. ... Giotto di Bondone most regarded as Giotto (1266/7...

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1.The Italian Renaissance followed on the heels of the Middle Ages, and was spawned by the birth of the philosophy of humanism, which emphasized the importance of individual achievement in a wide range of fields. ... However, the apex of artistic talent and production came later, during what is known as the High Renaissance, in the form of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michaelangelo, who remain the best known artists of the Renaissance. ...

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The period is more or less considered as playing out what had been set up in the later Middle Ages. ... The Renaissance is defined as the revival or rebirth of the arts; the period in European civilization immediately following the Middle Ages; conventionally held to have been characterized by a surge of interest in classical learning and values. ... It was during this time that Europe was busy pulling herself out of the economic stagnation of the Middle Ages. ... Of all the practices of Renaissance Europe, nothing is used to distinguish the Renaissance from the Middle Ages more than humani...

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The Christian religion was a major part of Northern European life in the late middle ages (around the late 14th and early 15th centuries). ... Kleiner, in his historical textbook titled, Gardner's Art through the Ages: A Global History, Volume II, (14th edition), tempera was a paint made from raw eggs and colored pigment. The use of the egg gave these paintings a high gloss and sheen, however, it also made the paintings more prone to crackling. ... The use of the high gloss tempera may have been used with gold leaf because these two mediums complimented each other so well. ... Though age ...

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If one were to gaze upon the statue of "David" by Michelangelo (1475-1564), they would notice the high esteem in which the human body was portrayed. ... In 1368 Petrarch wrote De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia (On his own ignorance and that of many others), which became a significant example of the contrast of humanism of the Renaissance to scholasticism of the Middle Ages. ... Petrarch urged others to awaken from the darkness "of the Middle Ages and move forward out of "the slumber of forgetfulness into the pure radiance of the past" (Humanism 1). ... At first, the humanists fervently defe...

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From the high level of the given personal details and anectodes, it could be said that Vasari had been far from simply writing information- giving based biographies and biography based art history. ... Hence, Vasari recognizes the Classical Antiqity with a high level of perfection, whereas the Middle Ages are defined as a decline period for art. ...

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The works of the great thinkers of Greek and Roman decent were now upheld in high regard. ... The humanists, however, were in no way the initiators of a particular "philosophy of life: they were not as a group any more anti-religious or this-worldly than their counterparts in the Middle Ages or than other groups in their own centuries" (Thompson 44). With the political changes that occurred from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance one can tell that the progression of humanism pushed the old ways of the Feudal System out and made way for a more flexible and liberal class system. ...

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"The Birth of Venus" by Sandro Botticelli One cannot describe the "rebirth" of lifelike art without first describing its predecessor, therefore to understand the full glory of the Renaissance, a short explanation of the Middle Ages is needed. During the Middle Ages, art had strayed from elaborate depictions of great mythological stories and beautiful scenes from the bible, to images of humans as corrupt beings and scenes of judgment and salvation from the bible. ... A short period known as High Renaissance (1500-1520) gave birth to some of the most influential and greatly known artists, a...

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The investigation of aged Greek was essentially obscure in western Europe from the fifth century c.e. ahead. ... As humanists in Petrarch's ring perused more aged creators they found that a full energy about their writing obliged a careful foundation in the writing and society of old Greece. ... Case in point, Julius Pomponius Laetus (1428 "1497) established the Roman Academy, whose parts took a dynamic part in antiquarianism and the investigation of the aged remnants of the city of Rome. ... His most famous work, Elegances of the Latin Language (published 1471), was a practical styl...

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Thus, artists such as Mosaccio and Giotto depicted art that unlike the Middle Ages, showed emotions, feelings, and bright colors, thus demonstrating the deep concern for naturalism in the society. ... Lastly, artists in the high Renaissance s! ... In his international style, he drew religious and secular paintings that stressed several ideas about life and ascertained its achievement in the high Italian Renaissance. He also drew many famous nude paintings such as the Venus of Urbino that demonstrated the unique theme of nudity throughout the high Renaissance. ... Lastly, in the high Renaiss...

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In this age, there was a shift in thinking, by centering human beings on the point of the physical reality rather than the spiritual God. ... From the 14th century to the middle of the 15th century, artists were progressing away from medieval models towards to Greco-Roman proportion concepts. ... In the 16th century, Michelangelo (c. 1475-1564) was a true artistic representative of the High Renaissance. ... In Italy, the Greek and Roman antiquity statuary influenced the Renaissance age. ...

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Giotto di Bondone and Tommaso Guidi, or Masaccio, the founder of Renaissance painting, were some of the first artists to paint this way, as they portrayed art that contrasted the Middle Ages, showing emotions, feelings, reality, perspective and vivid colors, thus signifying the deep interest for naturalism in the society. ... Artists in the high Renaissance like Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian, and Raphael established paintings in the narrative style that exhibited the human body in a more technical and natural manner, thus showing the different features of daily life. ... In many wa...

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The Renaissance was a golden age of church building. ... Much of this money went to sponsor the great architects and artists of the age. ... The original design was meant to have 40 life-size statues surrounding the tomb that would stand, 7 meters wide, 11 meters deep and 8 meters high, it was meant to be free standing and containing an oval funerary cell for the Pope. ... By the High Renaissance, led by Michelangelo's tombs, the effigies are often sitting up, and later may stand. ...

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