... therefore whatever was boorish or sacrilegious was destroyed. A change came from Italy in the mid 1400s when Masaccio burst onto the scene embodying all the qualities that make the Renaissance the rebirth and rediscovery of Greco-Roman art and literature. However the Renaissance did more than rediscover Greco-Roman ... the trade. Very close and friendly relations between the goldsmiths and the painters existed in that time, so that Sandro, who was a creative young man and devoted to drawing, became attracted to painting, and resolved to take it up. His father, who saw his budding talent,...

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