What renaissance values are embodied in this painting?
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Art during the renaissance (which means "rebirth") reflected the values of that time because it show cased high realism, ideal beauty, and harmony and balance. Body proportions were explored as people became more accepting to science. Leonardo da Vinci was 'the renaissance man' because he explored everything, from literature, to science, to the arts, to mathematics. During this time, people of the renaissance were looking at themselves as people and humanism became their focus. Their art glorified man, by showing ideal beauty.
During the Renaissance, there was a revival of interest in Renaissance, or in french as "Rebirth" period in European civilization immediately following the Middle Ages and conventionally held to have been characterized by a surge of interest in Classical scholarship and values(:, hope it helped
The both valued the naturalness of the word and celebrate beauty of the human body. For example, Renaissance paintings show a S-shape stand because it portrait a more realistic representation of the human form.
Humanists believed that through education, people could better themselves and as an end result make society better.