What struck me as especially interesting is that today we see Florence as the center of Renaissance Art perhaps only because Giorgio Vasari was the first one to write what we call today Art history. Logically, he might have hyperbolized the grandeur of Florentine artists in comparison to their contemporaries. It got me thinking whether similar process as “Renaissance” in Italy has occurred somewhere else at the similar time or even earlier, but we have little to no knowledge of it because the movement was never formalized nor officially named. Finally, as big parts of Roman culture were appropriation of the Ancient Greek one, could that be considered renaissance in its purest form? Reviving the presumably death culture and its values, accepting them as modern and one’s own, with just some adaptation in order to seem more similar to revival rather than bringing out already mummified remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We might discuss this in the future in our course, but the first few pages intrigued me to find out how did Northern Renaissance differ from the Italian one, was it influenced by it (due to its objective value or arbitrary importance), or did it just occur somewhat independently as Northern artists reached similar conclusions as their Italian counterparts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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