The Italian Renaissance was driven by a few scholars rather than being individualistic, and it was a period of transition between being faithful to the views of the Church, and the new method of free thinking. During the Renaissance, the type of artwork changed as well as the way in which artists approached their subjects. Renaissance art also saw the invention of oil painting, along with a more naturalistic representation of figures and a greater use of shading and shadows. Renaissance art mainly paved wave for the development of highly realistic linear perspective.A large number of the pieces created during the Middle Ages in Europe was of a religious nature. Artists of the Renaissance continued to paint and sculpt religious figures, but
