New ideas in medicine, politics and the arts came to life as reformation took it's place. ... When the middle ages ended, cities, and buildings were all small with nearly no color or life to them. ... Baroque art featured realism and naturalism, daily human life and times. ... His paintings featured extreme Baroque characteristics, light colors, insane detail and human life. ... Baroque and Renaissance styled art were more basic featuring simple brush strokes and everyday human life but as several years passed more and more styles of art started hypnotizing society and the people in it. ...

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Particularly in this paper, the focus will be mainly on the celebration of life of the deceased, and the purposes in doing so. If you're going to your eternal rest in the Eternal City, as it was thought of in the Renaissance, then the belief was that you should definitely go out in style. ... The Renaissance was a golden age of church building. ... Every Renaissance church in Italy is filled with masterpieces of Funerary Art. ... By the High Renaissance, led by Michelangelo's tombs, the effigies are often sitting up, and later may stand. ...

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Sculpture was Michelangelo's main goal and the love of his life. ... Michelangelo embodied many characteristic qualities of the Renaissance. ... Michelangelo portrayed life as it is, even with it's troubles. ... The largest fresco of the Renaissance, it depicts Judgment Day. ... He soon produced his first large-scale sculpture, the over-life-size Bacchus (1496-98, Bargello, Florence). ...

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Over the course of his life Serra delegated several other commissions to Guercino and was known as a notable art collector in Rome. ... For example pre-renaissance elements of composition are inherently divergent than those of the Baroque period, just as the styles used in the Italian Renaissance are notably different than those in Germany during the Northern Renaissance. ...

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The Renaissance Era which were around the 14th century through the 17th century were greatly inspired by Roman and Greek styles and Rome was greatly influenced by Greece when it came to engineering and art too. ... (Coarelli, 2001) A lot of these gladiators made fighting in these games a life style and career. ...

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Hindsight is 20/20; concepts like "the Fall of Rome" or "The Renaissance" were never perceived to exist at the beginning of the period/process -- they were only recognized and articulated (and capitalized) after the fact. ...

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