Italian Renaissance Art: Expressing Social Humanistic Values
During the Italian Renaissance, social and humanistic values started to be expressed in many forms: literature and architecture but most importantly sculptors and paintings. The thought that the world was now a desirable place impacted many paintings and sculptors. This was quite different from the paintings (that had survived) and sculptors of the past.
The socialistic values now forming in paintings was quite dominate. Focusing on the realities, paintings became less symbolic and more a “portrayal of concrete realities as they met the eye.” Bellini does a portrait called the C