Many new and different styles and techniques of painting originated from 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. Because of this, Florentine Renaissance artists are the most influential artists in history.

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 identical to another object, but smaller, the objec

using a series of different experiments including the mirror test. In the mirror test, he would hold up a mirror in front of a building and paint directly on top of the building's reflection in the mirror. He would then place another mirror directly in front of the existing mirror with the painting on it. Since the reflection of the painting looked the same as the existing building, he knew that his efforts had been successful. One of the final artists to perfect the style of perspective painting was Maso di Ser Giovanni di Mone -- Masaccio. Since he lived during a later time period, his paintings abandoned all use of Gothic style and had strictly Renaissance characteristics. He was one of the first Renaissance painters to apply Brunelleschi's laws to his paintings. When he used these laws in his paintings he was able to create the illusion of space and distance. He was one of the first artists able to create this illusion by using Giotto's idea of making a system of lines he!

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our pioneer sculptors, the painters seemed standardized. They were not concerned with the human and stylistic problems that inspired the sculptors, and rather productions appear to belong to another era. In the midst of all of this there emerged, around 1420, a Florentine master of extraordinary vivacity and originality who, judging from the importance of his commissions, must have created quite a sensation."(Levey) This artist was Gentile da Fabriano. Fabriano's use of curves to show depth and shape in human faces and bodies could be described using no other word than genius. His style was masterful and he successfully began the rebirth of classical painting for the Florentine painters. The next artist to continue the development of life-like human figures was Maso di Cristofano Fini -- Masolino. He was born in 1383 in a small group of houses in the upper Valderno. He died in 1447. Masolino followed Fabriano's ideas as well as Masaccio's style, but his paintings had a "dreami!

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