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Art and reason in renaissance Italy.
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ART AND REASON in RENAISSANCE ITALY. Renaissance Italy was at the centre of what can be determined as a period of 'rebirth' between the early 14th and late 16th Centuries. Essentially, the renaissance was 'the age of reason and enlightenment' and this was reflected in the emergence of art as an intellectual pursuit. The Italian Renaissance was a budding period, unveiling the notion of reason and thus producing some of the most intellectually advanced artwork in the world. The output in Renaissance Italy was monumental, whether it was philosophy, mathematics, art or science; some of the most important discoveries were made enabling Europe to move out of the middle Ages and into modern times. Voltaire stated the Italian Renaissance was a great age of cultural achievement in the arts, philosophy and politics, possibly matched by no other. The new availability of ancient Greek and Roman texts is often attributed entirely to the...
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