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About Renaissance architecture
The Renaissance was a time of heightened interest in classical secular culture, art, philosophy and mythology. It was also associated with Protagoras' principle that "man is the measure of all things". This was as true of Renaissance religious art and architecture as it was of Renaissance secular art and architecture. While Renaissance architects dismissed the pointed-arch style which had been prevalent in previous centuries, and coined the termGothic architectureto associate it with theGoths, infamous for destroying ancient Rome, it was also an outgrowth of the Gothic period and style. In painting and sculpture, the Renaissance represented the human form more anatomically accurately than in the prior Romanesque period. But whereas, for example, Gothic cathedrals are meant to inspire awe a
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