Renaissance Period (1400-1600)
- Medici palace, first museum of Europe.
- Secular values (power and influence) developed a new cultural field.
- Classical past was revered, classical artifacts and reproductions displayed, importance of temporal change realized.
- Knowledge consisted of discovering hidden similarities through correspondences (legends, hearsay and material offered clues to discovering likeness and relationships).
- World view concerned with life in the present rather than contemplative ideal of earlier times.