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    The document summarizes key aspects of art, architecture, music, literature, and reforms during the Age of Enlightenment. It discusses that Baroque style was prominent before the 18th century, giving way to Rococo, and how Enlightenment influenced the emergence of Neoclassicism. In music, it shifted from polyphony to emphasis on melody, with major figures like Bach and Handel. For literature, it mentions John Milton's Paradise Lost and the rise of the novel genre with early novelists. Reforms in Russia under Catherine the Great aimed to modernize laws and society by involving representatives and addressing serfdom.

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    The document summarizes key aspects of art, architecture, music, literature, and reforms during the Age of Enlightenment. It discusses that Baroque style was prominent before the 18th century, giving way to Rococo, and how Enlightenment influenced the emergence of Neoclassicism. In music, it shifted from polyphony to emphasis on melody, with major figures like Bach and Handel. For literature, it mentions John Milton's Paradise Lost and the rise of the novel genre with early novelists. Reforms in Russia under Catherine the Great aimed to modernize laws and society by involving representatives and addressing serfdom.

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    Enlightenment Research

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    The document summarizes key aspects of art, architecture, music, literature, and reforms during the Age of Enlightenment. It discusses that Baroque style was prominent before the 18th century, giving way to Rococo, and how Enlightenment influenced the emergence of Neoclassicism. In music, it shifted from polyphony to emphasis on melody, with major figures like Bach and Handel. For literature, it mentions John Milton's Paradise Lost and the rise of the novel genre with early novelists. Reforms in Russia under Catherine the Great aimed to modernize laws and society by involving representatives and addressing serfdom.

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    DIDEROT

    1) When was published


    2) How many volumes
    3) What aims set
    4) Main authors that contributed

    ART & ARCHITECTURE


    1) What style dominated art and architecture in the 17th century to the
    first half of the 18th c.?
    2) Features? Famous examples of this style?
    3) Influenced by the Enlightenment, what new style emerged in the
    late 18th c.?
    4) Features? Examples?
    MUSIC
    1) What style of music dominated the scene before the E?
    2) What changed in the E?
    3) What major names? How was this music different?
    LITERATURE
    https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/english-literature/literary-
    movements/age-of-enlightenment/
    1) The biggest English poet of the Enlightenment, and what is his
    famous work?
    2) General characteristics of poetry?
    3) The big literary form of THE NOVEL. First novelists that came about
    in the E?

    CRASH COURSE (4:50-6:50)


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k108xCzJhbs
    1) What reason was behind Catherine’s introducing new laws?
    2) Why did she summon representatives from different layers of
    society?
    3) What was the reason to introduce the reforms?
    4) What positive examples of her reforms does he cite?
    5) How did she treat aristocracy?

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