Some Renaissance portraits and paintings of individual people are almost mistaken for photographs, due to their realistic atmosphere and detailing. A great example of this is Leonardo da Vinci's famous Mona Lisa that seems so real that many writers have tried to analyze and explain the reason for her inwar

d amusement and beauty. This painting was also on an earthly background that helped to show her reality. Portraits showed every detail including scars and moles and were done on kings, as well as peasants. The portraits done on more prominent citizens revealed what was distinctive about them. Although the art was created for many different purposes, they all show the Renaissance influence of emphasis on the individual. Before the Renaissance, there were no portraits, but since a theme of the Renaissance was individualism, artists started to show that emphasis by only painting one person and focusing in on them.

During the Renaissance, European art was revolutionized. Artists incorporated the main aspects of worldliness of the Renaissance, including individualism. This emphasis is shown through portraits and paintings focusing on one person and glorifying the human body. That theme is also

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