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Renaissance Art Description

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renaissance art description
What are the difference between Renaissance artwork and Middle Ages art?

And advances made during the Renaissance.
Also, if you could, provide some examples to support your description.

“Renaissance” is the name given to the great intellectual movement in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries–a period which saw the transition from the Middle Ages to modern times. It began in the revolt of men of culture against the intellectual sterility and narrowness of the medieval spirit, and especially against scholasticism, whose pedantic and dogmatic narrowness had reached the extreme point of its development. The Renaissance began in Italy, and its first period (1300 to 1375) was marked by a universal revival of interest in classic literature and the classic ideals. It was a great revolt against bigotry and in favor of mental freedom and its first sign was a passion for the largeness and richness of the pagan world. Traces of this feeling can be seen in Dante(1265-1321), who, although thoroughly medieval in his sympathies, chose Virgil as his model, and who, in the vigor and magnificence of his own verse, was a striking contrast to the dull formalists who had before his time written for the men of the Middle Age.
In philosophy it gradually replaced the purely formal methods of thought that scholasticism had fostered; in science it led to the great discoveries of Galileo and Copernicus; in architecture it brought about the revival of the classic style; in art it developed the new school of painting of which Michael Augelo and Raphael in Italy were the great names, and still another school in the Netherlands and Flanders; in religion its influence is seen in the revolt of Luther; and it indirectly inspired the passion for exploration that led to the discovery of the New World.

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