... me since I saw you, Lord" (Michelangelo, qtd. in Klein 178). Art of the Renaissance period emphasized the organization of light, shapes, and space, and followed the laws of perspective. With this new accentuation of the mathematical side of art, realism resurfaced (Wohl 9). The visual arts became humanistic in its revival of realism from classical Greece and Rome, and in its subject matter. Humans became the ... da Vinci (1452-1519), and Michelangelo" (1475-1564) (Klein 14). Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) exemplified the use of Greek and Roman mythology in art of the Renaissance. His pain...

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... Middle Ages is needed. During the Middle Ages, art had strayed from elaborate depictions of great mythological stories and beautiful scenes from the bible, to images of humans as corrupt beings and scenes of judgment and salvation from the bible. It was not permitted to paint nudes during this period; moreover the clothed figures were done with blatant ignorance to anatomy. Art during this ... in science and technology, specifically pertaining to anatomy and perspective. As time passed this artistic movement spread across Italy to Venice and Rome, and by the Sixteenth century the rest o...

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... importance of the individual began. Thus, artists such as Mosaccio and Giotto depicted art that unlike the Middle Ages, showed emotions, feelings, and bright colors, thus demonstrating the deep concern for naturalism in the society. Other artists during the Italian Renaissance period such as Giovanni Bellini began to express their art through secular and religious themes and ideas ... that were exhibited through landscapes and portraits. As new styles of linear and aerial perspective and pyramid structures came into use by Francesca and Alberti, paintings were ... used decorative and co...

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