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 Middle Ages. The Roman Catholic Church and the Crusades set the standards of the truth in the Midd…
