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The Renaissance

Renaissance - an era in the cultural history of Europe, replacing the culture of the Middle Ages and the earlier culture of modern times. Approximate chronological framework of the era - the beginning of the last quarter of the XIV-XVI centuries. A distinctive feature of the Renaissance - the secular nature of culture and its anthropocentrism (ie, interest, first and foremost, to the man and his activities). There is an interest in ancient culture, is like her "rebirth"- and the new term. Of particular significance in this regard is given to symmetry, proportion, geometry and order parts.

Examples in Belarus could be the temples in Smorgon, Gniezno, Bykhau.