Renaissance art was mainly centered around human life. There were many great artists in the Renaissance, such as Michelangelo, who painted the Sistine Chapel . Leonardo Da Vinci, another great artist and a true Renaissance man, was very talented in many fields and painted the Mona Lisa. Renaissance painters invented several new techniques for painting. Paintings now had depth, or perspective, and realism. Artists in the Renaissance studied human bodies and drew what they saw. They also used anatomy, or the study of the body, to make their paintings as realistic as possible. To show depth, objects in the background of the paintings were drawn smaller than objects in the front of the paintings. Brighter colors were used for objects up close in the paintings, while images farther away were made to look blurrier. For more detail, see Thinglinks at the bottom of this page.