Renaissance artists tried to depict life on canvas and stone. With reference to this statement, describe the progress in the art of painting.

The Renaissance painters established very high standards and produced some of the greatest paintings of the time. The artists of the Renaissance period refused to abide by medieval rules, tradition and adopted new artistic methods such as frescoes for wall pictures, oil colours and woodcuts. They studied optics and geometry and used their knowledge to develop perspective in their paintings. They also studied human anatomy to find the mechanism underlying gestures and expressions. They had a humanistic secular approach and produced highly artistic and life like paintings.