A Painting and A Renaissance


This painting is was painted in 1512 which is the same time the English renaissance was happening. They both share common characteristics because some ideas from that age affected all mediums of art, not just writing or painting.

A characteristic writing during the English Renaissance and this painting share is a look back to the ancient Greek and Roman ways. The renaissance was a rebirth of the old ideas and this painting shows an ancient Greek god Poseidon.

 This painting and the English Renaissance also have a link of Humanism because of the drift to Greek and Roman thinking.

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