Question

How did art gravitate toward more of a realistic style during the Renaissance period?

Answer 1

​Painting during the medieval period had been very simple and, at times, stiff and artificial. In thirteenth-century Italy, Giotto's paintings provided the transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. He utilized an illusion of depth to produce a sense of real people and real space. His frescoes showed a naturalism which served as a model for other Renaissance painters and sculptors.

Answer 2

While sculpture of the High Renaissance is characterized by forms with perfect proportions and restrained beauty, as best characterized by Michelangelo's David, Mannerist sculpture, like Mannerist painting, was characterized by elongated forms, spiral angels, twisted poses, and aloof subject gazes.

Step-by-step explanation: