This painting was done in Florence, Italy during the Early Renaissance period. ... Unlike previous art pieces Early Renaissance art was more focused on the relationships between the painting and the observer. ... In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this painting was with other oil paintings from the Italian Early Renaissance period. ... This piece seemed to be very well displayed, because it was with other Early Renaissance Art pieces and right next to other oil paintings. ... This painting really brought me in from the very beginning. ...

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It evolved during the beginning of World War II when a group of artists decided that it was impossible to paint the normal still lifes and nudes of the times. ... It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. ...

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After the beginning of the Spanish Civil war, Dali made three trips to Italy. These trips gave him a new appreciation for the masters of the Renaissance and the seventeenth century painters of mannerism, which inspired him to draw certain paintings. ... This was all inspired from the masters of the Renaissance and Dali's thoughts on the era. ...

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