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The Renaissance
Florence in the 1400s rediscovered antiquity and invented linear perspective; Medici money and civic rivalry funded Brunelleschi, Donatello and Botticelli; then Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael took the High Renaissance to Rome.
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Prereqs: Medieval & Gothic art; Greek & Roman art. Next: Baroque. Modeled on Smarthistory, Khan Academy 'Renaissance and Reformation' and Vasari's *Lives of the Artists* (1550).Next: 1. Why Florence, why then?