ART3020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mercantilism, Republic Of Florence, Sfumato
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Humanism: francecso petrarch is credited with the title of the father of renaissance humanism. He was a scholar who re-introduced into italy and thus all of western europe a general knowledge of and re-incorporation of the values, intellectual curiosity and the arts of the classical pagan world of greece and rome. Italy, as the former center of the roman empire, was literally immersed in remnants of the empire in terms of decayed architecture. Over the centuries, these buildings had been utilized as sources for materials to be salvaged, as opposed to inspiration for architecture and visual art.
