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“A Mirror into the Culture of the Renaissance” The Italian Renaissance marked a revival of the classics or studies of the Roman and Greek cultures and with this revival there was a change in the art of this time. Much of this was changed by humanism; this was the intellectual and cultural secular movement that took place during the Renaissance. “Art is a mirror of any given society: Art reflects the major beliefs values and assumptions of the society that it is created in.” The true beliefs of any society can be seen through the art of that culture. Many artists convey the feelings of the many and not the few in their art. During the Renaissance there was a change in the way the art was presented as compared to the medieval art, it was no longer subordinated by the religion but it still had the common theme of religion. This change in the art was first seen in the paintings of Giotto. 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 practice of harmony, symmetry, shading (chiaroscuro), and proportion were used to make the paintings seem more realistic to the viewer. A new theme added into the mix of religion