Renaissance Art And Humanistic Art In The Renaissance

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Humanism was a move away from a religious view of the world, where God and the Church were the centre of the social and cultural focus, to one which saw human beings as being the agents of their own destiny, but also the focus of society, and culture. Humanities is embraced by paintings, writings, and experiments. Renaissance art is so important is because it is the beginning of painting using perspective. Art gives one a sense of what the history of the human kind has been all through the ages. Humanism affected the artistic community and how artists were perceived. While medieval society viewed artists as servants and craftspeople, Renaissance artists were trained intellectuals, and their art reflected this newfound perspective (“Boundless”). For instance, we have the Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci, which is definitely Humanistic Art. It is also one of the most well known paintings around the world. The Mona Lisa’s form of art came about during the Renaissance Period when free thinking and re-establishing human values and concerns while rejecting religious belief prevailed. Till this very day, it is unknown if the woman who posed for the painting was real or not, but everything that the Mona …show more content…

Back in the day medieval art portraits were usually profile pictures and the person in the painting would have a stiff look. Mona Lisa is painted in a relaxed three-quarter pose and cropped in contrast to the norm of full-length portraits (“Boundless”). Back then other pictures previously had the figure in the painting contained lots of jewels, as well as decorations. Whereas the Mona Lisa is simple, clean, and she does not have any type of jewelry. The Mona Lisa’s hair is also smooth and has a simple veil, that might represent a symbol of chastity, and her hands are relaxed, and free of bracelets and rings (“Boundless”). As one can see, she was a very different form of

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