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Medieval art typically valued the spiritual over the naturalistic human body.

Lorenzo Lotto pioneered marriage and family portraiture in Italy.

Jacob Riis’s book How the Other Half Lives documented:

Giotto’s figures are weighty and occupy believable space through modeling.

The Blue Virgin window at Chartres emphasizes realistic and naturalistic human proportions above symbolism.

Altarpieces became common features of European church altars from the thirteenth century onward.

Despite church prohibitions, which practice helped artists learn anatomy?

Who commissioned Palazzo Rucellai and the façade of Santa Maria Novella from Alberti?

Keïta’s portraits primarily document:

In art history, the term ‘Renaissance’ most specifically refers to the ______ of classical culture.