I don’t know if I’m phrasing this right, but I just noticed that even royal portraits in Europe all looked very flat and un-detailed up until like the 1600s, and there was another massive improvement in the 1700s when paintings started to look infinitely more realistic than they did in the medieval era.
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Renaissance paintings were all about the ideal portrayals of the human body.
Part of the art style of the Renaissance, especially with artists like da Vinci, was the idea of sexless beauty. So, they’d often make portraits of people with androgynous features.
Another part, such as the work of Michelangelo, would have portrayals of very toned and muscular people.
Botticelli liked to draw disproportionate humans performing impossible poses, but still portrayed his idea of a “perfect human”.
Artists weren’t always striving for realism. Realist art is actually fairly new. Medieval art was all about symbolism and color coding, Renaissance art, as I said, was all about the ideal “perfect people”.
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