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Renaissance
One of the most fraught and debated terms in art history, this generally refers to the revival of arts and letters inspired by classical roman and greek models in western europe from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries; more generally, it may refer to any revival of a previous style or culture. The renaissance is a general term for the period between the middle ages and the baroque. Historians of europe now often avoid this term and describe this period as early modern europe.
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