You can see some of these characteristics that are used in Renaissance art by looking at the Mona Lisa. For example, her face is mysterious but it shows emotion. She looks lifelike and three-dimensional by her shoulder facing towards the viewer. Scene reflects a great interest in nature, the background great dept because of the nature spreading further back and smaller as it goes. The colors used are shown responding to light. Leonardo da Vinci believed in the movement of humanism during the renaissance. The Mona Lisa was a focus on the individual. Leonardo’s painting, the Mona Lisa, does not portray a famous queen or religious figure; she is a simple woman, wearing a simple smile. These are all characteristics which artists used during the Renaissance.
Whoever she may be, the influence of the Mona Lisa on the Renaissance and later times has been enormous. The Mona Lisa revolutionized contemporary portrait painting forever. Leonardo’s drawings encouraged other artists to make more and freer studies for their paintings and stimulated connoisseurs to collect those drawings. Also, his reputation and stature as an artist and thinker spread to his fellow artists and assured for them a freedom of action and thought similar to his own. One of the artists Leonardo inspires was a young Raphael who adopted the Mona Lisa format for his portraits; it served as a clear model for his Portrait of Maddalena Doni (c. 1506).
Whoever she may be, the influence of the Mona Lisa on the Renaissance and later times has been enormous. The Mona Lisa revolutionized contemporary portrait painting forever. Leonardo’s drawings encouraged other artists to make more and freer studies for their paintings and stimulated connoisseurs to collect those drawings. Also, his reputation and stature as an artist and thinker spread to his fellow artists and assured for them a freedom of action and thought similar to his own. One of the artists Leonardo inspires was a young Raphael who adopted the Mona Lisa format for his portraits; it served as a clear model for his Portrait of Maddalena Doni (c. 1506).