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When one talks about the Renaissance the most common topic is art and architecture. It is true that the Italian Renaissance was marked by some of the greatest and most prolific masters of painting, sculpture and building. It is also true that the era marked the emergence of a great deal more. It was a time of awakening from the intellectual darkness of the medieval order and the emergence of many of the concepts that would form the basis for civilization as it is known today. The era saw the birth of new attitudes concerning the role of man in his relationship to the world and to God. Unfortunately, for the most part, the expansion of the 'role of man' did not include the role of women. This 7 page paper examines the Italian Renaissance with an emphasis on the changes and how it effected women in that society. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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painting, sculpture and building. It is also true that the era marked the emergence of a great deal more. It was a time of awakening from the intellectual
darkness of the medieval order and the emergence of many of the concepts that would form the basis for civilization as it is known today. The era saw the
birth of new attitudes concerning the role of man in his relationship to the world and to God. Unfortunately, for the most part, the expansion of the role of
man did not include the role of women. "Renaissance (from the French for "rebirth") is a term coined in the nineteenth century originally to denote the revival of
art and letters under the influence of ancient Roman and Greek models. This revival began in Italy in the fourteenth century, flourished in the fifteenth, and in the sixteenth
reached apogee and then crisis in Italy while it spread through most of Europe. But humanisms classical learning alone cannot account for the immense changes that took place during
these centuries; moreover, movements originating in the North also contributed to these changes. Therefore the term Renaissance has also come to denote the era in general and its overriding
spirit, in which desires intrinsic to human nature, generally repressed under medieval feudalism, burst forth with new fervor and resulted in a new culture" (Osmond 18). The most conspicuous
of these changes were in the world of art and intellectual pursuits. The social structure of Italy and the culturally defined gender roles were not as effected as art
and architecture. Early Renaissance Italy was a collection of city-states dominated by the families of power. One of the greatest of these was Florence, under the Medici family.
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