Using Selected Examples from the Northern and Late Renaissance, Discuss

question 39

Essay

Using selected examples from the Northern and Late Renaissance, discuss the influence of religious belief on the arts in this period. Choose your examples from several forms or media (for example, music, theater, and painting), and with each example show how its style or subject was affected by the religious disputes of the sixteenth century.

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