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Renaissance Art The Acropolis Life and times of Botticelli The last supper Sandro Botticelli The Birth of Venus.By Botticelli * ``Renaissance--meaning ``rebirth--is given to a period of broad cultural achievement spanning three centuries, the fourteenth through to the sixteenth centuries. Some of the main features of art during the Renaissance were. Humanism - A person who studied the classics was called a humanist. Humanists recreated classical styles in art, literature, and architecture. Foreshortening –portraying an object with the apparent shortening due to visual perspective. Foreshortening Symmetry – correct proportion of body parts, grouping of figures so that they are the same on both sides. Contrapposto – (counterpoise)To model the human form in a non-symmetrical, relaxed stance that appears realistic Sfumato -The technique of effecting a gradual transition from one colour to another. Sfumato Chiaroscuro - A term describing the handling of light and dark particularly in painting. Fra Filippo Lippi Coronation of the Virgin Lorenzo Medici Medici Palace Santa Maria *