th classical works that, despite their vigor and interesting compositional ideas, were portrayals of gods and idealized men, not of the true human experience. "This psychological emphasis was to be the innovation of the Renaissance, built, it is true, on the inspiration of antique Roman portrait sculpture." Appropriately, since there was little extant Roman painting to be seen in the Renaissance, the influence of classical portraiture was first seen in
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