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......The size of the figure and of the group of which it was a part shows an economic change, with more community-based artwork on a much grander scale than was seen in the Geometric period. The Greeks had become a more powerful state, recognized as such in the world after their defeat of the Persians. Athens was now the cultural and economic center of all of Greece, and artists from all parts of the Greek world were drawn to Athens (Kjellberg and Saflund 105). This also contributed to the Severe Style as the people of Greece manifested a sort of austere grandeur in their art of the period, with stern simplification of outline and surface, fixed pose, firm stance, and immobility of expression (De La Croix, Tansey, and Kirkpatrick 149)
The Renaissance was a period in which classical learning was revived, and this also meant a return to classical ideas of design. Those ideas were based on mathematical principles, for the Greeks understood the use of mathematics in developing a sense of balance and composition in art and architecture. Brunelleschi was an early Renaissance architect who sought a new way to make visual records of architecture on a flat surface,

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