Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: A Comparative Analysis

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The movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, hosts mutated turtles with the names of four renaissance artists. These four are perhaps the most famous of this era; however, in order to cast a refreshed version of these four heroic turtles, one must be replaced. Although the current four artists each hold their own in terms of talent and the ability to usher in a new world view, the choice must be made. While comparing each of these artists to the most notable directives of the renaissance such as, a return to classical antiquity, the increase in humanism, and the interest in and improvement of the intellect and imagination, one artist may prove to be better suited. To begin, a look at the renaissance and its goals is required. Much like the directives above, Walter Pater provides an overview of what the renaissance actually was stating ideas like, “… the love of the things of the intellect … the desire for a more liberal … way of conceiving life, … …show more content…

For example, his paintings were of nude Pagan Gods and Goddesses, which demonstrates more prominently the loosening of the Churches grasp on art. As well Botticelli’s works are massive in scale, “which in their size and in their seriousness vied with the religious art of the period” (Gombrich 32). Likewise, Botticelli’s work, although without being proven, might have been geared specifically for the depiction and purpose of instilling humanistic ideals. That is, a cousin to the Medici family Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco, who was a patron of Botticelli, received an exhortation from Ficino, which, in a way, asked him to submit to the charm of Venus who represented the Humanitas (33). If this letter from Ficino can be linked to Botticelli’s painting, it would mean his work was deliberately furthering ideals which contended the

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