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Italian art (1863 words) |
 | Throughout the next 14 centuries Roman art was to be the source of constant reappraisals and renewals in the evolution of the visual arts in Italy, and was fundamental to the major development of the Renaissance. |
 | The imagery of the funerary art of antique Rome, especially of the sarcophagi, was adapted to the iconography of Christianity. |
 | The transformation of Italian art from the mid-13th century paralleled the literary developments of Dante and later of Petrarch and Boccaccio. |