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Mythological Themes In The Fifteenth And Sixteenth Centuries

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‘Explain artists’ and patrons’ interest in mythological themes in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.’ I.E WHY DID MYTHOLOGY INTEREST ARTISTS AND PATRONS? The aim of the Italian Renaissance was not to rediscover of the past, but to find the spark that had given it life (Bull, 2005: 7). What made the Renaissance unique was the desire of artists and writers to improve upon and surpass, rather than mimic, what came before. Although it is tempting to suppose that the revival of classical mythology was sprung in fifteenth and sixteenth centuries from the birth of Humanism during the Italian Renaissance, in reality, it had existed before then. As early as fourteenth century, interest was steadily growing among men of letters for the …show more content…

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Artists and patrons of the fifteenth and sixteenth century saw these figures as having potential to act as symbols with deeper meaning. Although there were continuities in literature, language and custom from the ancient world, the religion that bound these things together had been obliterated by Christianity (Bull, 2005: 7). Greco-Roman culture valued the place of man and how he spent his life on this earth, the direct opposite to the Catholic Church, who believed the afterlife was more important that time on earth (Hancock, 2005: 12). Christianity had for centuries strongly overshadowed the study of the ancient, but by the fifteenth century, the idea of the pagan past as its own culture and civilization with its own values and beliefs became recognized (Halls, 1983: 227). Studying mythology consequently offered Christians access to a world previously removed from them. By the fifteenth century there was no longer the ‘active threat’ that Church had previously feared and this fictitious world had no true reality. (ref) Because the pagan world was so far removed from Christianity, the legitimizing distance gave way to its

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