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**from my textbook**
During the Italian Renaissance, artists and scholars developed an interest in the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome. This interest in the classics was called humanism. Humanists, the scholars who encouraged humanism, embraced the Greco-Roman belief that each individual has dignity and worth.
Artists also really admired the lifelike appearance of classical works and yearned to capture the same quality in their own works. They turned to a study of nature and the surviving classical sculptures in an effort to make their artworks look more realistic.
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"During the Italian Renaissance, artists and scholars developed an interest in the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome. This interest in the classics was called humanism. Humanists, the scholars who encouraged humanism, embraced the Greco-Roman belief that each individual has dignity and worth.
"Artists also really admired the lifelike appearance of classical works and yearned to capture the same quality in their own works. They turned to a study of nature and the surviving classical sculptures in an effort to make their artworks look more realistic."
I've put in bold above some of the influencing factors your original assignment called for. You need to research DaVinci and Michelangelo and their contemporaries to see (not just read about) their works and how the factors in bold above affected them. You might have to review some medieval artists, too, so you know how the Renaissance artists' work was different from earlier works.
The information provided from your textbook explains the characteristics of humanism and how it influenced artists during the Italian Renaissance. Humanism refers to the interest in ancient Greek and Roman art and literature. It focused on the belief that each individual has dignity and worth.
In terms of art, the artists during this period admired the lifelike appearance of classical works and wanted to achieve the same level of realism in their own creations. They studied nature and examined surviving classical sculptures to better understand how to make their artworks look more realistic.
Overall, the answer to your question is that during the Italian Renaissance, artists and scholars were influenced by humanism which led them to study nature and classical works, in order to create realistic art.