Italian Renassiance
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To what extent were the visual arts simply a recreation of a classical art 1400-1527? I think Classical clearly has a major influence on the visual arts, because it keeps many things though over a period time, which makes it quite classical sculptures; however over time, it has changed. It has made many new art styles or change, but there is a small sense of classic themes. I think that it has more things that are new than classical. It can be looked at as innovative but something from a classical past. "The Duomo" on the Florence Cathedral has become symbolic of the new. Inspired by the Pantheon in Rome, Brunelleschi designed and built the dome, something that hither to have been contemplated, but had been considered almost impossible to achieve. However, it is the Piazza in front of the Innocenti Foundling Hospital, that captures a sense of what the new...

