Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

Something The Mona Lisa, David, and The School of Athens all have in common is they represent a way of thinking that was shaping and being shaped by the visual arts of that period. From the 14th ...

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Architecture was deployed to justify a fascist national power anchored on the glory of Italy’s past—the country could reclaim that past through “the use of Ancient Roman examples to create a ...

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As cultural forces, however, the legacies of Greece and Rome are complex, interwoven with historical patterns that include war, violence, and oppression as well as the spirit of the Renaissance, the ...