artworks

Attached is a document with the images of the artworks

Option 2:

Select three Renaissance artworks that draw on the artistic and intellectual heritage of Classical Greece and Rome.

  • List of the ways in which they use the Classical past.
  • Then, list any Renaissance innovations either in terms of form or content.
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Three examples of renaissance that shows the heritage of classical Greece and Rome include the creation of Adam by Michelangelo, Apollo, and Diana by Lucas Cranach and Museo Nazionale del Bargello, David (1440’s). Like the classical art such as the Aphrodite of Knidos, the paintings in the renaissance represent nude pictures of human anatomy. The use of sculptures of nude males was a common phenomenon in the Roman classical work which was used to pass the certain message of the people’s behaviors in the Roman cultures. The painting equally represents the Roman cultures of war through the representation of the sword. The classical era in the Roman was a season of human in which individuals believed to the physical power through the human anatomy (Bentley, 2014).  The aspect of the early religion was also dominant in the classical era with unique features of the goddess as in the renaissance era there is also an emphasis on the saints(327words)
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