Points Awarded 96.00 Points Missed 4.00 Percentage 96.0% 1. The city became the first important center of the early Italian Renaissance. A) Vienna B) Rome C) Paris D) Florence Points Earned: 4.0/4.0 Correct Answer(s): D 2. This artist is celebrated as the designer of the doors of the Florence Baptistery. A) Leonardo B) Michelangelo C) Ghiberti D) Donatello Points Earned: 4.0/4.0 Correct Answer(s): C 3. Brunelleschi’s contribution to Florence Cathedral was its famous:
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Was the Renaissance a new development or was it just a continuation of the Middle Ages? The Renaissance was a new development completely different from the middle ages. Even though many scholars claim that much of the ideas of the Renaissance came from the middle ages and that their were many progressive changes during the middle ages‚ the Renaissance had enough unique qualities to justify itself as a completely separate period of time in history. During the Renaissance there were rises of new social
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The Harlem Renaissance was a time in which African Americans had an intellectual and inventive movement that thrived with the twentieth century. The Harlem renaissance contribution was based on the influential events of the “New Negro Movement” extended throughout the world. After the Civil War‚ a great number of people migrated to urban areas. Areas like these were such as Chicago or in New York City. This is where a different way of life developed for African Americans. (Fiero‚ pages 100-101).
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The Harlem Renaissance increased racial pride in African Americans‚ and allowed African Americans to influence music and art with their newly found culture. The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that celebrated african american culture through music‚ art and social reconstruction. It took place during the early 20th century to the 1930s in Harlem‚ New York‚ which was previously an upper-middle class suburb that was mostly white‚ but due to the wave of european immigrants in the late 19th
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Renaissance is defined as "the activity‚ spirit‚ or time of great revival of art‚ literature‚ and learning." Was there a twelfth-century renaissance? This is a question that still beckons an answer‚ and is often a topic of debate among modern historians. By definition‚ one can break it down: Was there a spirit of revival of a classical theme regarding the subjects mentioned above? Surely there was‚ and with author R.N. Swanson’s "The Twelfth-century Renaissance" as a guide‚ we can investigate just
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Renaissance: the development of linear perspective and other techniques of rendering a more natural reality in painting‚ and gradual but widespread educational reform . In politics the Renaissance contributed the development of the conventions of diplomacy‚ and in science an increased reliance on observation. Renaissance scholars employed the humanist method in study‚ and searched for realism and human emotion in art Florentine painters led byMasaccio strove to portray the human form realistically
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Arguments in favor of a Renaissance education: Renaissance education taught people how to be innovative. Renaissance education had people multi-tasking and doing different activities. You could know how to do different activities and be multi-talented it would help you later in life. Arguments in favor of a specialized education Specialized education teaches you in one certain field of what you want to do in life. You get specialized in one thing so i doesn’t become too overwhelming
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Humanism is a term applied to the social philosophy and literary culture of the Western world during the Renaissance movements that spread across Europe. Washington State University‚ WSU‚ quoted on the internet: "Of all the practices of Renaissance Europe‚ nothing is used to distinguish the Renaissance from the Middle Ages more than humanism as both a program and a philosophy". The Renaissance in Europe began in Italy‚ and with it the origin of humanism. The movement began as a response to the troubling
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American Renaissance Writers ENG/491 December 19‚ 2011 Peggy Walls American Renaissance Writers The American Renaissance‚ in literary circles occurred during the middle to late 1800s. “One of the most important influences of the period was that of the transcendentalists” (Britannica‚ 2011). Major writers during this perid had a common bond. Their platform was ‘an idealic system of thought based on a belief in the essential unity of all creation‚ the innate goodness of man‚ and the supremacy
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Hum2232: Renaissance/Baroque Jill Werlink Florence Neubauer 3/11/13 Women on the Move-Discussion Wkst 2 Professional Women in the Renaissance 1. A) The first professional published
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