How did the Music and Art in the Renaissance reflect the philosophical and sociological trends?
The philosophical shift in worldview in the Renaissance was a new focus upon the individual and the will and a renewed value placed on the lives of men. In the medieval period, God’s will and the vagaries of fate controlled men. Life could be short or long, happy or miserable but it was insignificant in comparison to eternity. The point of life was to ensure you were pious enough to go to heaven, not hell. The physical body was insignificant in the face of this. In the Renaissance, philosophers argued that the human will was more important that fortune (hence, Humanists). One could manage the ups and downs of fortune if one had the will to do it. One’s life was important in itself, not just as a stepping-point to eternity; one’s actions were critical again and human life – and the human body – was important again. This idea manifested in the art. Artists sought a new realism in their portrayal of the human form. Moreover, if the human body was important, human life was too and thus, so
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