Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
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The Art of Renaissance
Paintings of Ancients were idealized, which brought Biblical figures, unnatural and geometrical background. In contrast, the painters of Renaissance considered that the art should be realistic and as natural as possible.
In 1445, Gutenberg invented the printing press, that means, every one can get books more easily because books could be produced very fast. The demand for books grew up and book trade prospered throughout Europe. This helped development of philosophy and science. Science taught artists the way to make paintings more realized, it is like the objects are bigger than farther one. Artists also learned how to show linear prospective which was used in art. The science was influential to the artists of Renaissance.
In Renaissance, people changed their thinking from middle age. They thought the religion should not rule the human's life...