He was considered to be "The father of Renaissance painting- because of his less abstract and more natural approach to the depiction of the world (Kagan) . ... The sculptures, much like Greek and Roman sculptures, were more exaggerated in their size and their presence was powerful. ... An even better example of this shift in views from the medieval art to the Renaissance art was Michelangelo's sculpture of David. ... The sculptures had become more daring in their presentation. Donatello's sculpture of David was the first nude seen since the times of the Roman Empire. ...

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Lamassu gates, stone walls, relief sculptures showing delegations from all parts of the empire bringing gifts to be stored in the treasury. ... Relief sculpture shows king Narmer uniting upper and lower Egypt. ... The color remains on the sculpture. ... Akhenaton 91 73 His body has the same pose as in Old Kingdom sculptures, but the features are smoother, more relaxed. ... This sculpture was used as a model for copying. ...

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It was hardly surprising then that nudity came into fashion in painting and sculpture. ... Neo-Platonists held the notion that by the contemplation of beauty, the soul could progress from the love of the material to the love of the abstract and then finally to the love of the spiritual, namely God. ... Donatello's first freestanding nude sculpture, David (1428-1432), is particularly sexually suggestive of the sculptor's homosexuality. A long feather, possibly a phallic symbol, creeps from the base of the sculpture, up the inside of David's shapely thigh. ... Nudity in paint...

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Art, it's everywhere you look. From the billboards you see every day to the pictures you take with your camera. It exists on every continent and every country. Art has been around sense the beginning of time and still thrives today. This essay is to inform and highlight some of the most importan...

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