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The Renaissance When the new upper class movement, Renaissance, occurred in Italy around the 14th century, a revival of the classical forms originally developed by the ancient Greeks and Romans, an intensified concern with secular life, and interest in humanism and assertion of the importance of the individual began. Thus, artists such as Mosaccio and Giotto depicted art that unlike the Middle Ages, showed emotions, feelings, and bright colors, thus demonstrating the deep concern for …

…tolerance for nudity and ideas about life as well as the body began to expand in many of the paintings thus symbolizing freedom. These genius artists such as Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Raphael, and Titian began to gain status thus creating deep prestige for the arts. Furthermore, through the various themes, morals, and ideas that each paintings carried, great changes for the society and religion throughout the magnificent period of rebirth were able to take place.