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Why did art from the Renaissance portray so many images of Jesus and other religious scenes from the Christian Bible?

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The Renaissance with its emphasis on human nature brought a new perspective to art. Painters did paint religious themes for churches and their patrons, but these paintings were qualitatively different from what had gone before. They also turned to nature and to portraits of famous and not so famous people.

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