Around the year 1350, a few elite men in what is now Italy felt a conscious shift in lifestyle. Instead of being humble and unexceptional, these people strived for personal excellence, to develop their talents and show the world how great they were. This time period came to be known as the Renaissa...
Other artists during the Italian Renaissance period such as Giovanni Bellini began to express their art through secular and religious themes and ideas that were exhibited through landscapes and portraits. ... His most famous and recognized work, however, the Birth of Venus uses the combination of mythology and religion, also a popular humanistic idea adopted from the Greeks. ... 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....
