Art has been a major attraction throughout Italy.  From the Renaissance era till today’s modern art, artists have looked up to the famous artists during the Renaissance period and noticed what their paintings mean.  During the Renaissance period, many famous artists like Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titan have all been a major influence during that time period.  Their famous paintings and sculptures have been noticed throughout the world and are displayed in museums throughout Italy.  These artists were influenced by one another and their paintings had significant meanings to them.  These paintings represented religious themes, cultural trends, facial expressions revealing feelings and intimacy.  The artists also showed figures that move within the picture interacting with each other, relating stories and incidents that artists wanted to reveal. 

When artists would began to paint a portrait, they wanted their figures to appear on a two-dimensional surface, they would use a system they developed called one point perspective.  This system was a mathematical system where all the edges and forms follow orthogonal lines converging on a single point.  As for objects that existed within these lines and the lines become smaller and smaller as they approach a single point called a vanishing point.  The sizes of all kinds of objects in this system create depth and a true size relationship between each other within the painting.

Some artists would soften the edges of their figures and objects by blending them into their landscape.  The objects that were farther would appear from the eye and become more amorphous.  This technique was used to add more three dimensional depth and believability.  There was also a trend toward more realism artists who began to render the human form by using foreshortening and chiaroscuro.  This would help the painting to heightened the illusion of depth on a two dimensional surface. 

When it came to the High Renaissance art, it was more classical, monumental, and ideal.  Many famous paintings had idealism and soft rendering of details.  They were also interested in the immediacy of the moment or how things looked in an instant of time.  This would lead to the interest in the sublime, man fighting against man, good against evil to the death, along with all the emotion and expression.