- his art announced a new way of looking at nature and the individual
- Artistic goal: represent objects as diverse and real as possible
- Senses : hearing and seeing - keys to understanding art
- Visual art
1. a means of arriving at nature's truth
2. brought human reason and human creativity together
3. he used unprecedented scientific precision
4. "he who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot" : do not base your knowledge of nature with other interpretations, but with nature itself
- study of human proportions laid foundations for modern science
1. i.e. "A man's outstretched arms is equal to his height"
2. interested in the human body and motion of limbs (ex. The Vitruvian Man)
- wanted to convey the "concrete specificity" (absolute reality) of things
- Perspective
1. used large perspective backgrounds in his works to give more of a sense of 3-demential reality (ex. Mona Lisa)
- used mathematics as a means of giving order to the world
- balanced religion with humanistic ideals - idea of Italian Renaissance
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