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Hello everyone, in this week's blog I am going to talk about Renaissance. In my textbook Culture and Values A Survey of the Humanities chapter 12 , the main ideas was to discuss the history of Renaissance Art from early 14th century to the city of Florence in the 15th century. It focused on Medici family and their patronage artists. Per my textbook, Michangelo's talent and some of the influences he absorbed in Florence under the Medici (Cunningham 285). In the video, the main idea was to discuss the Arts in the Republic of Florence from Dante to Michangelo. Per the narrator, civilized human life depends on not only on modanatty, but on healthy simulation of the past. (Art of the western world, 24:04-24:09)                                                        Michangelo, Pieta, 1498-1499, marble  In Botticelli's La Primavera c. 1478, I have l...

Hello readers, hope you had a fantastic week! We all heard about the word: Renaissance. Renaissance means rebirth in French (Part 1:1.6). But some of you might ask: what was the Renaissance a rebirth of? Today we are going to dig into this question and discuss how Ancient Greece influenced on Renaissance. Like Donatello, Dante, and Botticelli, I was intrigued by Ancient Greece’s mythology stories. Ancient Greek believed polytheism . Inside the Parthenon , 12 gods and goddess habitat in it. This is different than the Christianity which believed that there is only one God. I like Greek myth because Greek gods and goddesses are natural. Per Madeline Miller:  You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more deeply to see (Miller 14). They have emotions and struggles. They make mistakes and regrets; They have love stories and unethical affairs; they have ruthless fights. In Greek myth,Gods are not perfect....