by Chiara Marra

Time Capsule Through the Renaissance to the Age of the Baroque

Time Capsule Through the Renaissance to the Age of the Baroque

Researched and Authored by: Michael J. Spindler of Local Music Hits

As a young eager fictional cultural anthropologist, the author is on a quest to find a missing time capsule. The contents supposedly include articles that come from the age of the Renaissance and the Age of the Baroque. The renaissance period is broken into two periods; the Early Renaissance from roughly 1400 to 1490, and the High Renaissance, from approximately 1490 to 1530. The Age of the Baroque covers two centuries, from 1600 through 1800, and is known as the “Age of Contradictions”. Both periods experienced growth through expression that affected the religious, societal, and politic climates of their respective time periods, which continue to echo through time. The impact of these dramatic periods continue to morph our present day society through the continued evolution of expression that affects the core institutions as humans strive in new directions. The discovery of a time capsule may shed a little light on how key examples impacted the world in their time, both culturally and socially.

The day of discovery has arrived. Does any one have a crow bar? Though a little dusty, the first item appears to be from the Early Renaissance period. How can the author tell at first glance? A large volume of art produced during this period was religious. Our first specimen appears to a depiction of “The Crucifixion”. A tempera medium on wood, the artist, Konrad von Soest (Web Gallery of Art,

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4. The The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity: Contributions to the Cultural History of the European Renaissance
5. The Age of Renaissance and the Rise of Modern Humanistic Education

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