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Italian Renaissance painting reflected human beauty, personality, and achievement. An interest of the natural world was also present. (54) >>Places, faces, and settings were almost lifelike.

In masterpieces of naturalism the nude human form was usually glorified. (55) >>One of the Renaissance painters' principal subjects were the nude. 

Such paintings were either on the wall, wood panels, canvas supports, and occasionally on metal or stone. (364)  >>Only rarely were paper and parchment used.



 Palettes contained about eighteen pigments that were for common use. (365) >> Some of these pigments were worked in oil and others in egg.

" By the 1490s oil was the medium of choice all over Italy, but egg tempera continued to be used for certain effects" <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">(366) <span style="color: #404040; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> >> Egg tempera was used for it's ability to dry quickly. > <span style="color: #404040; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">>>With oil the mixtures of layers became the ideal way of painting in Italy.

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