Driving Forces to the Renaissance

I think that the patrons were a big driving force to the renaissance. The patrons were people that invested in aspiring artists. Without them, artists like Brunelleschi and Donatello would not be as famous as they are now. The patrons were the people that brought new ideas and looked at things from a different view. Without them, Brunelleschi would not have come up with the idea of perspective. Cosimo De Medici challenged Brunelleschi to build the worlds largest dome, and when he was challenged to do this, he came up with the idea of perspective. Without the patrons, the renaissance would not have been what it was. They gave the artists an opportunity to emerge. I think that without the patrons, the renaissance would be a lot different.