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A Discussion on the Renaissance Art and Its Influences

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This paper discusses the causes of the Renaissance , their impact on visual arts as well as the roles played by patronage in the flourishing of the Renaissance art . The paper eventually tackles Protestant Reformation and Counter-Reformation and how these two events created differing art contents and messages

A Discussion on the Renaissance Art and Its Influences

1 . The Renaissance style is considered as a collective movement related

br to the reawakening of art - particularly drawing , painting , sculpture and architecture - that centered in Italy from 1300-1600 (Cunningham and Reich , 2009 ,

. 265-266 . This movement evolved over the years as people - tired of the medieval life of poverty and sickness - started to develop new world views . These world views centered on essential and profound questions related to human beings , their lives , and their purposes in lives . They formed striking similarities to the Greco-Roman intellectual discourses , which were overshadowed during the dark times of the medieval age but rediscovered during the reawakening period of the Renaissance

Experts agreed that the Renaissance movement started in Florence , Italy then a trading center between Europe and the rest of the world and a platform for exchange of ideas , purchase of arts , and commissioning of literary works (Cunningham and Reich , 2009 ,

. 267 . In Italy , people began to question tradition and authority , focus on life on earth , shape their own destinies , educate their selves and revisit the classical...