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A 5 page research paper/essay that explores the evolution of the Western European character and culture since 1500. Using the periods into which art is typically divided as a framework, the writer discusses major trends in European culture to the present, demonstrating how classicism and romanticism have altered in a cyclical fashion. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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that have prevailed in European culture ever since" (Machlis 257). However, while it is true that European culture began to value reason above other qualities, it is also true
that this emphasis on the rational was periodically offset by periods where emotion and romanticism ruled, at least in regards to the arts. During the Renaissance, European culture achieved
a heightened sense of awareness in regards to the human personality. The culture of the Renaissance marks the passing of European society from being an exclusively religiously oriented society towards
being a secular one. This period marks the end of unquestioning faith and mysticism and the beginning of an era that values scientific inquiry and reason. This major paradigm
shift marks a change in focus from concentrating on life in the hereafter to life in the present and a new reliance on the evidence of the senses, rather than
on tradition and authority (Machlis 256). The sixteenth century was the era of Martin Luther (1483-1546); Shakespeare (1564-1616); Titian (1488-1576); Erasmus (1466-1536) and other famous names. With the achievements
of these men, the modern world finds people who "speak our language," as the Renaissance marks the birth of the "modern European temper" (Machlis 258). The periods into
which European art is typically divide provide handy "signposts" for delineating the course of development for European character over the next several centuries. The art of the Renaissance, with its
emphasis on reasoned beauty and structure was succeeded by the Baroque era, which began, roughly, around 1600 and lasted until the death of Bach in 1750 (Machlis 265). This
was a period of turbulent social change as the Reformation radically affected European culture. In keeping with this, there was a resurgence of mysticism, but it was a "practical mysticism
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