During the Renaissance, many new, different styles of painting were developed.

Many of these techniques were perfected by Florentine painters. Some of these styles

techniques include perspective, life-like human forms, realistic looking objects and

chiaroscuro. These developments began to form in the early Quattrocento and were slowly

perfected by a long flow of artists. Their influences included new scientific discoveries as

well as new outlooks on religion, life and visual perception of the world.

Perspective was perhaps one of the most significant methods developed and also the

one with the most impact. It is still widely used today. Perspective is a method which is

used to make a three-dimensional space or object appear three-dimensional on a

two-dimensional space. It allows objects to appear closer or further away and gives them

depth. This effect can be achieved by making all of the lines in a painting go towards a

vanishing point on a horizon line. Artists also found that while using a horizon line and

vanishing point, if you made one object in the painting which was identic

Valderno. He died in 1447. Masolino followed Fabriano's ideas as well as Masaccio's

and his birth is thought to be around 1370. During the first and second decades of the

Perhaps the greatest master of this style was the great scientist and artist, Leonardo

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Olmerl, Michael. " The New Look of th Bancucci Chapel Discloses Miracles (four year cleaning

Renaissance was the use of life-like human forms. This painting technique uses curves to

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