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Paintings before the Renaissance: people saw in only a 2 dimensional figure, but in the Renaissance, people saw art in a 3 dimensional figure. Painters in the Renaissance gave attention to body size, proportions, perspective, and detail.
I do not quite see the point of asking "why". People who feel they have the talent and the urge become painters. This goes for all of them. Actually Rothko is known to have said that he became an artist because he walked in on a life figure drawing class and saw the nude female model there and decided to become an artist after that.
Black figure technique (Apex)
Artists who draw bodies are called figure drawers. Some believe that figure drawing is the most difficult form of drawing.
Rembrandt's glowing figure emerges from the dark background; Vermeer's figure is depicted in natural light.