Renaissance Man, Leonardo Da Vinci (IIPM-Best Article)

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Here, in the dismaying duration of the Dark Ages, art became a papal propaganda and ecumenical sense prevailed over economic one. However, heretic imputations could not get the better of heuristic inclinations as long-standing repression and rot resulted in the collective throw-up of a Socratic zeitgeist in the times of the 15th and 16th centuries – the Renaissance. Whether or not one believed in rebirth, the period of Renaissance was definitely that for Italy, and for all to behold. An era of artistic aspirations tempered with the scientific spirit, it saw the fetters of feudalism come loose at the same time as submission to scholastic pursuits gaining ground. Some of the most intellectual and intensely individual forms of expression found way in this epoch, be those on a canvas or in a caravan – like the Vespucci voyage. But it was art – painting, sculpture, architecture – that lay at the heart of Renaissance, and vindicated by men like Michelangelo, Botticelli, Titian, and the Renaissance Man, Leonardo da Vinci himself.

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