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All Roads Lead to Rome The ideas of middle ages were that your role in life could not be altered, and the only thing one had to forward to was death. When the Italian Renaissance occurred, the hordes of people were ready for change, ready to enjoy life and all its wonders. Concentrating on ones matchless qualities and toiled with an enterprise to savor the beauty and the beauty of the observer. Men, who embodied the Renaissance and its great thinkers, are all superb examples of a universal Renaissance man. New ideas such as humanism, individuality, and a new outlook on religion, were portrayed by the artistic geniuses of the time like Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo Da Vinci; all of whom depicted the galvanizing times through sculptures, poetry, portraits, and more. In past times people were portrayed as undistinguished, in their presence and in what they did. People were considered boring and were also, never considered. Names were not given to these one-dimensional creatures they were referred to by whom they worked for, or what they did for that person. Not for what they stand for or their thoughts and feeling, but by their place in life. The lack of selfhood was due to the fact that observation drawn to oneself was uncouth and egotistical; on the path to heaven, people thought, beings should remain appreciative and humble. This would all change when artists started engraving their way into the world as painters with names and thought. This all started with the engraving techniques of Michelangelo, who wouldn’t stand for another man to receive acknowledgment for his workmanship. In the middle ages the people of the time did not have distinct faces and features, all the painting of people looked identical.
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