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The English Renaissance Period

London experienced a cultural and artistic movement between the beginning of the 16th and early 17th century, when the English Renaissance period. The English Renaissance was heavily influenced by the pan-European Renaissance, the question of which is in the 14th century have influenced originated in northern Italy. Often known as the "Age of Shakespeare" or "the Elizabethan era," the English Renaissance created stimulation in art, architecture, literature and music of England.

No area in England was unaffected caused by the revolution of the Renaissance. English literature was influenced by the works of poets such as Edmund Spenser and John Milton, authors such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, and philosophers like Sir Thomas More and Sir Francis Bacon. Some produced works of English Christianity, declared, represented by some English think about life and death and even in the glorious history of London, and some printed their works on their ideas about humanity and the utopian society.

Renaissance also had great influence on the music. From ballads to the famous church of refined court music and songs, many innovative measures taken and the music was made in the Renaissance, varied and tasty. A new school of music in this period, as the English madrigal school known developed. The English madrigal was either Italian copies of musical works or the direct translation. In general, in three to six voices, the English madrigals in the type of light.

Renaissance also affects the architecture of that time. Inigo Jones is credited with propagated Renaissance architecture in England. He had studied architecture in Italy, the land affected by the Andrea Palladio, who changed the architectural style of both palaces and churches. Even the style of the furniture was influenced by the Renaissance. Rather elegant furniture was to limit the churches and monasteries.

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