The great age, Renaissance was a time when old beliefs were tested. It was a period of intellectual ferment that prepared the ground for the thinkers and scientists of the 17th century. It was an age that bore two great artists: Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Leonardo was not a prolific painter like his fellow artists. He was a kind of intellectual painter, a painter who thought a great deal about nature and about how …showed first 75 words of 1056 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1056 total…is the standard against which all subsequent sculptors are measured. The art of Leonardo and Michelangelo was both novel and ground breaking. They thought that man had been blinded for too long, and they did something about it. Tired of the dark, they longed for light in their art. Whether they were right or wrong about their male interpretations and inventions, they did create a golden age that continues to influence men to this day.