Transcription: The Renaissance emerged in northern Italy in the 1300s. When not content with the abstract and highly subjective thinking of the Middle Ages, scholars turned for inspiration to the ancient Greeks and Romans with their love of earthly life. Italian architects rediscovered ancient construction techniques and incorporated Greek and Roman columns, arches, and domes into their public buildings. Instead of the flat, stiff figures of the Middle Ages, Renaissance artists portrayed rounded, flesh and blood people, people filled with emotions. To depict the world they lived in realistically, Renaissance ...
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