Many literary works can contain related themes or literary devices. Although subject matter differentiates, the use of literary devices, such as word usage and imagery may be associated. Cocco 3 Niccolo Machiavelli as well as William Shakespeare incorporate the literary device of imagery through their works The Prince and Othello. ... This is an example of how many literary devices can be present in one literary work, as well as parallel devices in two dissimilar works. ... Cocco 8 By using these texts in correspondence, the reader gets a deeper understanding of how to obtain the statu...

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Another reason for the rise of painting and the arts was because they wanted to recapture that spirit of the Greek and Roman cultures in the own artistic, literary, and philosophic works or art. ... The Renaissance era brought many new techniques to the art world. ... Another technique made was Fresco painting. ... It changed the literary, theatrical, drawing, painting and musical worlds with a lasting impact that will never be forgotten with time....

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Because these cities were very wealthy, many merchants started to spend money on different things, such as painting, learning, new banking techniques, and new systems of government. ... Denys Hays also states that many of these artistic explorers achieved a "fresh aesthetic sensibility by merging literary and artistic classicism in their love of Roman art" (36). ... The writings of "Erasmus of Rotterdam," a theologian and humanist from the Netherlands, and of "Ulrich of Hutten," a German humanist and publicist, as well as the "Epistolae obscurorom virorom," Latin for "obscurantist lett...

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They include the cheaper manufacture of paper, the increased availability of printed books, the growing number of libraries, and the growing use of the vernacular languages for literary, business, administrative, and legal purposes. ... Art it self changed physically, thanks to new inventions and techniques. Oil pants, which were stronger, heavier, and gave more colors to paintings, led to the new technique on drawing with better perspectives. ...

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The Italian Renaissance began as a literary movement, but changed as new discoveries were being made, such as art (A Changing Europe). ... Although, Primavera does not show much of the techniques used during the Italian Renaissance, it is a perfect example of classical subject matter. ...

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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. The sculpture almost appears to be a person itself, so real, proportionate, and beautiful that it is uncanny to fathom that it is an interpretation by ...

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The humanistic movement began during the early Italian Renaissance with the rediscovery of the writings of classical Greeks and Romans, which were not only models of literary style, but considered to be guides to the understanding of life. ... Masaccio is most noted for using Brunelleschi's techniques in a series of frescoes designed for the Church of Santa Maria de Carmine in Florence. ...

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The humanistic movement began during the early Italian Renaissance with the rediscovery of the writings of classical Greeks and Romans, which were not only models of literary style, but considered to be guides to the understanding of life. ... Masaccio is most noted for using Brunelleschi's techniques in a series of frescoes designed for the Church of Santa Maria de Carmine in Florence. ...

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