The Italian Renaissance

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in the Middle Ages focused on religion. People were painted flat, rigid, and all different sizes according to levels of importance. The paintings were symbolic from corner to corner. Artists of the Middle Ages almost never signed their names, because that was not what was important. In the Renaissance, every painting and sculpture was signed. The Art from the Renaissance was not at all extended from the Middle Ages.
Woman in Renaissance society had total different objectives than the woman from the Middle Ages. As most would think that the woman�s status would have rose in this period of prosperity, it actually declined for the most part. In the Renaissance, woman were made to be decorative and pretty, while in the Middle Ages woman some woman raised their manors and controlled businesses. Woman were still being educated in the Renaissance which was an extension from the Middle Ages, but their knowledge was not put to use. They gossiped with their friends, and their ...

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