ssical influence and Humanistic details and focus. The unique talents and potential of the individual became significant in the Renaissance. Renaissance artists began to paint individuals emphasizing their uniqueness, their emotions, and their significance; many artists even began to sign their works to acquire personal fame and recognition. Contrary to the classical Greek and Roman belief that influenced Renaissance artists, during the Middle Ages the many religious paintings focused on people as a group only emphasizing religious figures with gold and blue paint, usually painting them larger than regular people. You could see that these regular people showed no expression, many even had the exact same faces and clothes; all with the same colors giving further evidence of their insignificance. In the Renaissance these individuals were all given recognition, not only were the paintings painted in proportion but individuals were given their own faces, their own clothes, and their own colors. Most great artists of the Renaissance painted portraits of their patrons as well as everyday people, further showing their recognition of the individual.
             Leonardo da Vinci was known not only as a masterful painter but as an architect, sculptor, engineer, scientist and a believer and representative of individualism. His pursuit o
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