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During the Renaissance, humankind’s spiritual focus shifted again. You could say that the people of the Renaissance had a double vision: Educated men and women wore mental bifocals so that they could see close up (earthly things) and far away (heaven). With this double vision, Renaissance artists celebrated both humans and God without short-changing either.

The close-up focus allowed realism to make the comeback we call the Renaissance: humans reclaiming their classical (Greek and Roman) heritage (see Chapters 11 and 12).