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Art Bites 159: The Renaissance Defined
The Renaissance, a reawakening to the enlightened ways of ancient Greece and Rome, was, for two centuries, an explosion of
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Art Bites 150: Michelangelo
Michelangelo, another multi-talented “Renaissance man” was a world-class sculptor, painter, and architect. He sculpted “David” and the “Pietà,” painted the
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Art Bites 149: Raphael
Raphael combined the grace of Leonardo, the power of Michelangelo, and the humanist spirit of the age. The master of
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Art Bites 148: Building a Gothic Cathedral Out of 13 Tourists
Gothic churches were taller and brighter than the earlier Romanesque. They had a skeleton of support — columns, buttresses, and pointed
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Art Bites 144: Byzantine Art in Medieval Europe and Venice
While Rome fell in the West, it lived on through the Middle Ages in the East as the Byzantine Empire.