Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Renaissance Art?
a. Emphasizes elegance and simplicity.
b. Focuses on proportion and balance.
c. Christianity is a focus, but not the primary focus.
d. Nature is presented as wild and uncontrollable.

d.Nature is presented as wild and uncontrollable.

Explanation:

Art is an area where the cultural change of the Renaissance is most clearly manifested. We can see a complete restoration of the major arts, which we still call today fine arts, to which painting, sculpture and architecture belong. Staying in Italy, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Giorgione, Titian, Rafael and Botticelli are some of the most celebrated representatives, most often engaged in all three arts. In the philosophy of Renaissance art, every aesthetic element carries with it principles and ideas that go beyond appearances. The artist uses the aesthetic medium to guide us from the appearing to the essence: he transcends the image. In this way form can lead to an idea, as Platonic theory of form and idea has already established. Philosophers saw in art a medium through which theories and ideas could become sensible and material, and so many of them were not inclined to art. Particular importance was attached to the arts in general, and especially to the visual arts to which the art of words - poetry and, to a lesser extent, rhetoric, was based.

No, i don't believe that a portrait has the same weight as it did a long time ago. i don't believe if the president were to send a portrait of himself to an ally it would reaffirm a relationship. portraits have lost a lot of there meaning now and it is quite sad. in today's society if you want to create or strength a relationship you wouldn't send them a portrait you would send them money or other gifts of value. in today's society authority would be based on power that the person has. most powerful people try and keep them selfs from looking weak so others won't doubt them, so if a man of authority were to send someone a portrait to reaffirm a relationship i believe it would make them look weak. those with authority use there power telling others what they are to do.