Well, you could say the Cold War was a continuation of World War Two. One led into the other, and helped shape it.

The artistic and cultural flowering of the Rennaissance was associated with a fair number of excesses, sort of analogous with sex and drugs and rock and roll in the Sixties, along with the music etc.

In both cases you got a reaction against it from people who didn't like that kind of stuff and saw it as a corruption of true religion and family values In the Sixteenth century, the Reformers, in the 20th century the Religious Right.

I wouldn't stretch the analogy too far, since real life is always more complicated than that, and the Religious Right never got round to doing stuff analogous to wrecking cathedrals (they's been more the style of that other bunch of latter-day Reformers, the Taliban and Co.)

But I'd maintain that it's best to recognise a distinction between the Renaissance and he Reformation.