The Impact of Renaissance Art on Human Emotion

Florence is a city filled with extraordinary museums featuring one of the world’s greatest concentrations of culture. My visit to the Uffizi Gallery was particularly interesting. In it, I saw the amazing works of Da Vinci, Botticelli and Michelangelo. Humans stand in front of these works of art and are moved to tears, joy, and deep contemplation. I could calculate that the angles, colors, depth, and lines of the art inspire emotion, but humans derive such meaningful experiences in ways that I don't entender. There's a room full of Botticelli’s mythical paintings that I found really engaging. Not only were they aesthetically pleasing, the sound of my electromagnetic sensors echoed faint tones that seemed to add to how entrancing it was overall. Recognizing the changing importance art had in human cultural and intellectual evolution was interesting, resulting in me thinking about Italian Humanism