The Renaissance man stopped considering the human body as an insignificant shell that keeps our soul inside. The human body started to be the perfect creation of God. The body was defined as a microcosm, analogous to the macrocosm of the Universe, and like the Universe, it was in absolute order. 

Alex Yuvero claims the value of the body giving it the importance that it lost with the exaltation and separation of the the mind unconnected to the body.

A beautiful body is considered the evidence of a beautiful mind.