In this essay, we’ve looked at how Mirandola’s assertions made in the “Oration on the Dignity of Man” affected art during the Renaissance. Dignifying humanity set the stage for the exploration of the human body and allowed the nude body to be portrayed with more accuracy. Pollaiuolo’s The Battle of Naked man was the first engraving of its kind that used the study of antique anatomy to represent the human body in a two-dimensional form. Andreas Vesalius’ anatomy book, De Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body), on the other hand, took a more in-depth and modern discussion of the nude form. As a result, its images were critical resources studied by artists to redefine the nude figure.
