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Waveform Audio File Format  |  1995-05-30  |  48.1 MB  |  1 channel  |  22,050 sample rate  |  19 minutes, 4 seconds
Transcription: The Enlightenment. the age and its art. Eighteenth century artists and philosophers concern themselves with the attainment of clarity and orderliness. This desire for an orderly universe reminds us of the Renaissance. The values of the Renaissance, admiration for order, and inspiration from classical antiquity were also very important to the artists of the Age of Enlightenment. The Enlightenment is a direct outgrowth of the scientific inquiry into the physical world begun in the Renaissance. This is an anatomical study by Vesalius, a Renaissance scientist. In Rembrandt's anatomy lesson, the ge ...