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SAINT WITH INSTRUMENT OF TORTURE BY MICHELANGELO/VATICAN

Artists designed peaceful paintings and weapons of war, church interiors and bridges, city plans and fortifications, sculptures and canals. They explored the scientific aspects of art, such as proportion, anatomy, and perspective. Artists even dissected cadavers to learn about the structure of human muscles and bones. Such knowledge made the figures they drew, painted, and sculpted more realistic. The Renaissance came to an end when the republics lost their freedom. [MH] {NR}