Old Masters, typically a steady segment of the marketplace that includes European artists from the Renaissance era like Rembrandt and Tintoretto, enjoyed a robust season.

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Le Cateau d'Esclimont is a Renaissance-era castle located between the Versailles Palace and the Chartres Cathedral.

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The centre, with its gleaming glass shells, is the most visible symbol of the cultural renaissance that will usher in a new era of creativity, revitalize the downtown and return Kansas City to the dynamic, creative and worldly place it once was.

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Just as the printing press, by improving the spread of ideas, helped bring on the Renaissance, mind to mind connections could herald a new era of progress.

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Despite being critiqued as propaganda for its representations of life under Stalin's dictatorship, socialist realism has enjoyed a renaissance as those living in former Soviet countries seek artifacts from the previous era.

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Western cities like Lviv were able to preserve some gothic and renaissance architecture, while most cities in the East ended up giving in to the Soviet-era simplistic and functional style.

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Rather as Italians thought their Renaissance was an upwelling of disciplined classicism Rome reborn from the ashes of "barbarous" Gothic so the Kyoto Renaissance strove to recall the spirit of the Japanese past, as far back as the Heian era (794-1185), especially in the domain of writing.

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British folk music had a golden era in the '60s and early '70s, and in certain circles it's experiencing a renaissance.

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