What techniques were used by artists of the Renaissance to reflect the new attitude toward humanism?
What will be an ideal response?
Essay responses should include these points:
• Religious subjects were natural and lifelike.
• There was a drastic decline in the use of hieratic scale/social perspective.
• Foreshortening suggests the form was sharply receding by the time of the Renaissance.
• Scientific and linear perspective translated the subject into a three-dimensional form.
• Atmospheric perspective provided a feeling of naturalism.
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a. sculpture
b. weaving
c. calligraphy
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