Renaissance Artists

Renaissance artists were people of ideas who discovered them in nature herself and from the work of the living model. A new secular framework in the search for languages, literature, history, and philosophy supported the move into humanism. The awakening of the human intellect and individualism paralleled the great development in the fine arts. With newfound inspiration and execution styles, the fine arts of the Renaissance questioned the traditional beliefs and stiff representation of the …

…use of scientific perspective. The High Renaissance brought it down to a more realistic level so that patrons didn't feel burdened as seen in The Holy Family with The Infant St. John the Baptist. The softer colors and blending lines created a less tense mood and more figure interaction. Nevertheless, both paintings represented their time period - of the revival of the classics and the starting point of more scholarly achievements and less religious dealings.