ART AND THE MODERN PUBLIC The Birth of Modern Patronage Spanning the seventeenth and eighteenth Centuries, the Enlightenment produced greater philosophical thinking than it did great works in the fine arts. In other words, new ideas and “progress” did not...
THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND SOCIETY The Moral Order, Part Three The question faced by the Enlightenment was how to create new world without God? What would be the basis of this new life? Spirituality was replaced with technology; religious laws were replaced by rational...
INTRODUCTION TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT A Question of Philosophy Like any great cultural change, the Enlightenment was long in gestation, but its range was short. The Enlightenment, a revolution in philosophy, was strictly a Western phenomenon, linked to Modernism in the...
