14.They staged mostly melodramas. But Namir Vich Den Chenko who we've mentioned and his partner famed theatre director Constantin Stanislavski wanted a theater devoted to realism and naturalism.
15.Inspired by both Michelangelo and classical Greek sculpture (which had itself inspired Michelangelo), it was way ahead of its time and was fiercely rejected by the critics, due to its extreme naturalism.
16.In the same way, argues Ms Burke, the popularity of single-point perspective and naturalism in drawing meant Renaissance women were bombarded with " endless images of newly realistic naked goddesses being churned out in sculptures, painting and prints" .