Renaissance Art: Time Capsule

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Time Capsule
Jason Long
Hum-102
January 16, 2012
Thomas Uskali

Time Capsule
As a young child, I had the opportunity to create a chest of treasures with certain things that I held close to me. There were items like small hot wheel cars, sea shells, and a few baseball cards these were the things that I held dear to me at that time. Now imagine that if a time capsule was unearth from the Baroque or the Renaissance era what would be inside of it, there may be works of art such as famous paintings, extraordinary literature passages, and much more. These items that could be found in a time capsule of this period could change the way our society views its music, arts, and philosophy standards. This essay will discuss such possibilities as finding such things as art, music, and more of these aspects in a time capsule if the author was an culture anthropologist of today.
During the period of the Renaissance, most of the artist of this time received his or hers inspiration from most of the other artist from the Greek and Roman society, the church itself, and even at most the things that were happing around them in the villages that he or she were living in at that time. If a time capsule was unearth during this period, as the result of the author of this essay digging it
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