"Scheme delle Proporzioni" by Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian person as a standing relief

It was a time of departure: after the religious Middle Ages, the geniuses like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti never went there and opened the goal for a new age. The return to classic Greek antiquity was only an apparent contradiction; Similar to their Hellenistic ancestors, the artists and scientists rediscovered the Renaissance human, nature and their connections, strived for perfection and found new forms of expression in art.