Which often-served symbolic religious purposes but they had no life to them. Artists all throughout the land started drawing portraits and figures that were nude. What once would have been frowned upon, now was respected and highly thought of as beauty (Renaissance 233). .
Another technique made was Fresco painting. Fresco painting is when damp plaster is used instead of a canvas. Many of the most famous paintings ever done were frescos, though now in the 21st century many of them are in great need of repair. .
Two of the most famous artists ever to live used all of these methods. They were Michaelangelo Buonarotti and Leonardo DaVinci. We will now look at each artist and what they contributed to this wonderful era.
Michaelangelo was born in 1475 in a small town. His most famous works range from the David in Florence, to the Pieta in Rome and the Sistine Chapel in Italy. Many people forget Michaelangelo as a sculptor because the Sistine Chapel was his most famous work. He believed "that painting should mimic as nearly as possible the rounded, three-dimensional forms achieved in sculpture." (Michaelangelo, Sistine Chapel 33-34). Michaelangelo was quick to become upset and belligerent, so relationships with other people were hard to come by. He was also a homosexual and was always tortured with guilt. As he grew older, his sins bore harder and harder on him and he fell into great despair (Cumming 24-25).
Between the years 1501-1504 when making David, the biblical character, the people of Florence were facing problems from outside threats to the city. He sculpted it in remembrance of God's help to David against Goliath. So that it might remind them that God would protect them against the "Goliath-like" forces that were threatening the city. The David statue was one of the grandest of its time.
His other famous sculpture was the Pieta. It is a statue of Mother Mary holding dead Jesus in her arms.
