How did Renaissance art differ from earlier periods in terms of painting technique? A. Renaissance artists used tempera paints on wet plaster. B. Renaissance artists used oil paints on dry walls. C. Renaissance artists used watercolors on wet plaster.

Renaissance art differed from earlier periods in terms of painting technique in several ways.

A. Renaissance artists did use tempera paints, but not exclusively on wet plaster. This technique, known as fresco, was indeed used during the Renaissance, but it was also used in earlier periods. The innovation of the Renaissance was not the medium of tempera itself, but the way in which it was used to create more realistic, three-dimensional figures and spaces.

B. Renaissance artists did begin to use oil paints, but not typically on dry walls. Oil painting allowed for greater detail, depth, and realism in the artwork because the paint could be layered and manipulated in ways that tempera could not. This technique was not widely used until the Northern Renaissance, with artists like Jan van Eyck pioneering the technique.

C. Renaissance artists did not typically use watercolors on wet plaster. Watercolor was not a common medium in the Renaissance. The most common mediums were tempera and oil.

In addition to these changes in medium, Renaissance artists also differed from their predecessors in their use of perspective, light and shadow, and anatomical accuracy, all of which contributed to a greater sense of realism in their work.