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As art and architecture lend a culture part of its shape, so the culture or period in which the art or architecture are produced often shape it. For example, during the Middle Ages in England the flourishing religion also created a flourish of religious art, painting, sculpture, brasses, stained glass and embroidery. These types of works greatly enriched the medieval church in England. Most works of this period were non-secular, but one of the most outstanding art pieces of the time was known as the Bayeux tapestry (c. 1066-77) and was also one of the rare secular works of the era. Its elaborate detail illustrates the English preoccupation with dramatic story-telling.

The Renaissance in England produced architecture that was distinct from its Gothic counterpart. It also shows the social development and ideology of the combination of secular and non-secular aspects of society. The trend was also towards designing structures that offered more comfort to the inhabitants in their design. During the sixteenth century secular art and architecture became more important and the works of John Thynne and Robert Smythson built manor houses and palaces designed for greater comfort, ones that encompassed a symmetrical plan that faced outwards toward a lavish garden. The dissolution of the monasteries and the split with Rome was thus expressing itself in more secular buildings. Foreign artists were also hired by the nobility to pa

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nshrined them for all of eternity, but his patrons also included leading figures of the Reformation. He was known for the lifelike and realistic images he painted, but he also softened their hard features and made many of them appear more noble than they were in actuality. This was because the court of Henry was filled with those jockeying for power and favor with the king, and painting unflattering portraits, however realistic, was one quick way to lose favor. Holbein would paint sketches first, showing the subject’s true self, and then polish the finished oil portrait. If one looks at one of the sketches that survived and compares it with the finished oil, the portrait of Simon George shows a man of studied elegance in the finished oil, but in the sketch, which only Holbein was privy too, shows a young man filled with ambition and on the make. The writings of Rousseau and the French Revolution, based on liberty, fraternity and equality can be seen in many works of the artists of the eighteenth century. Two such painters were Edouard Manet and Gustave Corbet. Their works were the beginning of realism in painting, in part to promote the principles of liberty, fraternity and equality, but also as a reaction against the Ro
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