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Italian Renaissance
Italian Renaissance artists made deliberate references to to the art, architecture, and ideals of Classical Rome and Greece, and took Christian stories and transformed them into real, believable images. These artists used various tools to create their naturalistic images including cast shadows, linear perspective, and contrapposto.
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El Anatsui, Old Man’s Cloth, 2011, bottle caps, material, material (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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