The Renaissance era is often described as a movement of rebirth, an era when the phoenix of the arts rose from the ashes brought on by the implementation of fundamental Christianity and the plague. Painters, poets and philosophers alike pondered life's many emotions and how to improve and experience life while existing on earth. The Norton Anthology of English Literature notes that To Renaissance intellectuals, the achievements of the pagan philosophers of antiquity came to seem more compelling than the subtle distinctions drawn by the Christian theologians of the Middle ages. Indeed there was a rebirth in the notion that there is truth in all philosophies and there is malleability in individuals. These ideas led to many of the beautiful paintings and poems demonstrating life, love, death and religion in their many forms. Two such forms of art in this wonderful, humanistic movement were Lorenzo Lotto's painting, "Allegory...