Answer: They used the man as a subject matter, depicting its beauty and strength.
Explanation: Renaissance sculptors studied the corpses of deceased men and women quite reguraly to see how they worked so as to paint them better, so not 1. Ive been to the louvre and the met, and i have studdied some of the most famous Renaissance sculptors, they way they sculped them was very life like (and in poses i could achieve even with my very not flexable body), so not 2. This one just makes me laugh almost all of the most famous Renaissance sculptors and art people are portrayed without clothing.
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Answer:
1980s without a doubt! george michael had the highest popularity at that time & whitney started rising to fame in the mid-80s.