Word: quatrocento
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...North, unlike Italy had no classical roots to return to; at the same time its medieval experience had been more thorough, so that it was able to absorb the classical past more easily through the intermediary of Italian Quatrocento art than by reference to classical forms themselves. The result was a new style rather than merely a duplicate of the old, a style that continued to develop Northern characteristics. This is shown by the Coat of Arms of the German Empire and City of Nuremberg, done by Durer in 1521. Following the classical example the figures are worked out with...
...North unlike Italy, as Panofsky has pointed out, had no classical roots to return to, and at the same time its medieval experience has been more thorough, so that it was able to absorb the classical past more easily through the intermediary of Italian Quatrocento art than by reference to classical forms themselves. The result was a new style rather than merely a duplicate of the old; and a style that continued to develop Northern characteristics. Examples of this are the Coat of Arms of the German Empire and City of Nuremberg, done by Durer in 1521. Following the classical...
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