Sculpture
Who were the types of people more likely to patronize Renaissance sculptors?
High Renaissance
Italian art Italian Renaissance interior design Effigy mound Agesander of Rhodes Rajan
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During the Middle Ages, painters and sculptors tried to give their works a spiritual quality. They wanted viewers to concentrate on the deep religious meaning of their paintings and sculptures. But Renaissance painters and sculptors, like Renaissance writers, wanted to portray people and nature realistically. Medieval architects designed huge cathedrals to emphasize the grandeur of God and to humble the human spirit. Renaissance architects designed buildings whose proportions were based on those of the human body and whose ornamentation imitated ancient designs. 
Furniture. (Marriage) Chests. Large "cassoni (singular cassone)", or marriage chests, were the most desired and common features of homes, and despite the fact that they were expensive, were bought by nearly all the social classes. Made with "gesso" and wood, these chests were often dark and elaborate, and their grandness depended on people's different classes (wealthier people had more sumptuous ones, whilst poorer classes' cassoni were often far simpler). The best decorators and sculptors in Italy often produced grand and beautiful cassoni for some of the most important noble families of the time. Even though these chests were used to put objects inside of them, many were used simply for decoration. 
Common shapes. Common shapes for effigy mounds include birds, bear, deer, bison, lynx, panther, turtles, and water spirits. These animals were most likely chosen for their particular religious or spiritual significance to the people who built each mound. Certain areas of effigy mound activity have types that are most likely to be found there. 
 ""Agesander" redirects here. For other uses of this name, see Agesander (disambiguation)." Agesander (Gr. , also Agesandros, Hagesander, Hagesandros, or Hagesanderus) was or, more likely, several Greek sculptors from the island of Rhodes, working in the first centuries BC and AD, in a late Hellenistic "baroque" style. If there was more than one sculptor called Agesander they were very likely related to each other. The very important works of the groups of "Laocoön and his Sons", in the Vatican Museums, and the sculptures discovered at Sperlonga are both signed by three sculptors including an Agesander. 
Rajan is the name or the honor given to the ""Kings or Prince"". Rajan stand for the ""Great King"" in Sanskrit are discussed in noncommittal terms of their duties as rulers, who ""protect, serve and patronize the arts"" 