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A 9 page research paper that focuses on the art of Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael. In the public mindset, the Renaissance refers to a specific period of history and its characteristics and culture. While this conceptualization of history has some validity, it ignores that fact that in actuality, social evolution was never so clear cut. In other words, there was considerable continuity from one age to the next, as well as differences. This realization brings up the question of precisely what the term "Renaissance" means in terms of social and cultural development, and how the Renaissance differed from the Middle Ages. In exploring this question, it becomes clear that Renaissance Italian art embodied the ideals of the new era, and that art offers a ready means for understanding the cultural context of this age. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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that fact that in actuality, social evolution was never so clear cut. In other words, there was considerable continuity from one age to the next, as well as differences. This
realization brings up the question of precisely what the term "Renaissance" means in terms of social and cultural development, and how the Renaissance differed from the Middle Ages. In exploring
this question, it becomes clear that Renaissance Italian art embodied the ideals of the new era, and that art offers a ready means for understanding the cultural context of this
age. The term "renaissance" means "rebirth" (Spielvogel 210). Beginning in the fourteenth century, many intellectuals believed that they were witnessing a "rebirth" of the cultural glories of antiquity,
that is, the Greco-Roman age. This perspective perceived the thousand or so years between the end of the Roman Empire and their own era as a "middle period," which had
been characterized by "darkness because of its lack of classical culture" (Spielvogel 210). Therefore, they began referring to this period as the "Middle Ages," and differentiated it from their
own era (Spielvogel 210). A primary feature of the Renaissance was that is marked an age of recovery from the awful events of the fourteenth century, as it was
during this period that Europe began to recover from the repercussions of the Black Death, as well as rampant political disorder and economic recession (Spielvogel 210). The recovery encompassed a
renewed interest in classical culture, which affected "politics and art and led to new attempts to reconcile the pagan philosophy of antiquity with Christian thought, as well as new ways
of viewing human beings" (Spielvogel 210). Nevertheless, no one during the Renaissance referred to their era by that term. The term "Renaissance" was first used in the nineteenth century
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