William wrote: > the P-R > believed that art up to the earlier work of Raphael was good and afterward > steeply declined. In choosing their name they proclaimed allegiance to art > before the High Renaissance (and the Ren. 'cult of genius').
Of course, this also makes your point that finding the beginning point of a period or cultural homogeneity is difficult. In one sense, the Renaissance is considered the first "modern" moment, beause the artists, writers, and philosophers of the time were self-consciously changing the prevailing mode by recovering the ancient classical style, rejecting the prevalent decorative International style of the late Medievalists. Then within a few decades, things shifted again. The Baroque exaggerated some of the theatrical effects of the Renaissance style, especially in architecture, and the Mannerists intentionally and self-consciously changed the formulations of the High Renaissance, etc. etc. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady
