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... feeling about moral and spiritual truths rendered in visual terms , in pictures and symbols . He found himself deeply involved in expressing the theme of stability and instability , what was eternal and unchang- ing and what was subject ...
... feeling about moral and spiritual truths rendered in visual terms , in pictures and symbols . He found himself deeply involved in expressing the theme of stability and instability , what was eternal and unchang- ing and what was subject ...
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... feeling and behaving in another direction . Renaissance Italy had seen the formation of academies for the study and discussion of classical learning , and reconciliation of its values with tenets of Christian doctrine was sought . The ...
... feeling and behaving in another direction . Renaissance Italy had seen the formation of academies for the study and discussion of classical learning , and reconciliation of its values with tenets of Christian doctrine was sought . The ...
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... feeling we have attempted to outline ; they declare themselves both in the form and the content of Renaissance poetry . The most notable is the Great Chain of Being by which the plenitude of God's love was transmitted through all ...
... feeling we have attempted to outline ; they declare themselves both in the form and the content of Renaissance poetry . The most notable is the Great Chain of Being by which the plenitude of God's love was transmitted through all ...
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