Diversity In Renaissance Art

Beginning with the Renaissance the Church is no longer the only primary patron of the arts. Private families, governments and other secular (non-religious) groups begin to hire artists with greater frequency. What effect do you think this new diversity in patrons had on the arts in the 15th-18th centuries? Include some specific examples of works commissioned by these new patrons.

The Renaissance was a period that carries with it much of discovery. The period of the modern area, where literature, philosophy, were discovered, from the Italian Renaissance, more precisely in Florence, a city of Italy, where artists expressed themselves freely in their art does; they are less inspiring by the middle Age, but preferably, by the Greco-Roman art.

This reform has impacted on several fronts: on the architecture level, there is no question as to the Middle Ages to build fortress castles and secured with the austere look, but now, they put on the beauty, bringing out the esthetic
But this does not mean that the man stepped away from the Catholic faith, on the contrary, he knows that he looks like God by the perfect beauty of his shape. Mainly, the arts work of the Renaissance are performed, not at the artist desire, but as orders received by wealthy sponsors, imbued with humanist culture. They are called patrons. By examples, include the portrait named "The Jocund" or Monna Lisa", (see picture below), realized by Leonardo da Vinci on the command of Giocondo married this lady (Panorama of Art). Other example is the “Last Supper”, again by Leonard da Vinci. The painting depicts the scene of Jesus' Last Supper with his disciples. This painting was order, by Sforza, Duke of Milan, as part of a church's renovation plan and convent buildings (Leonardo, Last Supper, Essay by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven