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Blog entry #2: Telling the Story of the Early Renaissance: 2.7

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     This chapter introduces the Art of the West or mainly the Art in Florence Italy and its Architecture.  Florence was a city with people called merchants. It was one of those cities where tyranny was not  allowed, but only the people and republic could run the government body(Art of The West 00:00- 03:58).  The people of Florence took interest in Art, Architecture, and trading goods. Most importantly,  trading was the main job that made the people of Florence gain income or wealth, People usually    traded wool and it was also the center of the European banking system (The Early Renaissance 268).   Although, Florence was the center of banking system and trade route, it was most famous for its Art    and Architecture. There were two famous artists from Florence who were competing against each   other  one was Filippo Brunalleschi and the other one was Lorenzo Ghiberti, these two artists were  ass...

Telling the story of before the Renaissance

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  Two of the ideas I liked regarding ancient Greece, Romans, Christianity, Islam and Middle ages or Renaissance groups in other words were their arts and architectures. Although, Christianity influenced the Roman Empire this encouraged me to say that the Roman Empire made infrastructures from stone and arts through stones and stones, their whole goal was to make it beautiful, religious, civil, militaristic and artistic that symbolizes their culture just like Greece, Islam, and the Middle ages. These groups had one goal and their goal was to spread out their knowledge, government, religion, culture, art and architecture throughout the world. Nowadays architecture and art made by these Renaissance groups is a number one factor that explains a lot about their history as a result the descendants of these Renaissance groups use these architectures to practice their religion, do a tour, or discover something new within these architectures and display art in the museum to tell the story o...