Personal portraits in the Renaissance revived facial beauty, or in a sense fashion, and with both of these came a new concept of the individual. Personal Portraits caught fire in Europe , as new ways to make yourself look good in a more convenient matter were invented. The use of oil colors, linear perspective, frames enshrined with metal, miniature portraits and an increase in the workforce willing to paint a portrait all helped make portraits more appealing. Inevitably, the populace started paying attention more to beauty, posture and fashion which are all huge separations from the middle ages and gave the Europeans a new concept of what they should be. A second concept of self which was introduced through art in the Renaissance is the tendency of the population to pay more attention to personal physicality and musculature as a result of them seeing overtly powerful figures in the form of statues. Another form of art which thrived in the Renaissance was sculpting, Renaissance statues were primarily distinguished from medieval sculpting by physical realism and stature. The undisputed master of Renaissance sculpting is Michelangelo whose statue of David is a prime example of how art helped to foster a new concept of the individual. The position of the statues is another distinguishing aspect, Contrapposto or Counterpose is simply displaying a person in the form as if they are about to do something or take action. These factors helped to make the Europeans seek to be more like the perfect humans displayed and statues as they worked on their beauty of the body. A defining feature of strict religion is the lack of faith in humanity, or the belief that life itself serves only as a time of punishment and hard work. Hardly ever if at all in the dark ages were great adventures written of in support of the adventurer. The man or woman who dared to venture out of society was considered a heretic, and this was
Personal portraits in the Renaissance revived facial beauty, or in a sense fashion, and with both of these came a new concept of the individual. Personal Portraits caught fire in Europe , as new ways to make yourself look good in a more convenient matter were invented. The use of oil colors, linear perspective, frames enshrined with metal, miniature portraits and an increase in the workforce willing to paint a portrait all helped make portraits more appealing. Inevitably, the populace started paying attention more to beauty, posture and fashion which are all huge separations from the middle ages and gave the Europeans a new concept of what they should be. A second concept of self which was introduced through art in the Renaissance is the tendency of the population to pay more attention to personal physicality and musculature as a result of them seeing overtly powerful figures in the form of statues. Another form of art which thrived in the Renaissance was sculpting, Renaissance statues were primarily distinguished from medieval sculpting by physical realism and stature. The undisputed master of Renaissance sculpting is Michelangelo whose statue of David is a prime example of how art helped to foster a new concept of the individual. The position of the statues is another distinguishing aspect, Contrapposto or Counterpose is simply displaying a person in the form as if they are about to do something or take action. These factors helped to make the Europeans seek to be more like the perfect humans displayed and statues as they worked on their beauty of the body. A defining feature of strict religion is the lack of faith in humanity, or the belief that life itself serves only as a time of punishment and hard work. Hardly ever if at all in the dark ages were great adventures written of in support of the adventurer. The man or woman who dared to venture out of society was considered a heretic, and this was