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However, one similarity remained steadfast – like the Italian Renaissance, a great many artists and thinkers across Northern Europe put humanist thought at the center of their endeavors.

It was this achievement of a true idealism in art which gave the world Humanism, and which was the unique achievement of Greek culture, Read said. He offered the figures on the frieze of the ...