Line on complex diagram noted Renaissance work (8)
I believe the answer is:
madrigal
'noted renaissance work' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with creating things as well as being verbs in their base form.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'line on complex diagram' is the wordplay.
'line' becomes 'l' (used when specifying particular lines from a poem).
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'complex' is an anagram indicator.
'diagram' with letters rearranged gives 'madriga'.
'l' after 'madriga' is 'MADRIGAL'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for madrigal that I've seen before include "Elaborate part song" , "glee" , "Drag Liam around to hear an unaccompanied song" , "Unaccompanied song in several parts" , "air" .)