Masaccio is seen now as being the initiator of the new style of Florentine Realism. Masaccio (1401 – 1428) the first great painter of the early Renaissance period, was the first artist who demonstrated full command of the new rules of perspective the figures in his paintings have volume and the buildings and landscapes realistically recede into the distance. Soon after Brunelleshi’s painting, the concept caught on and many Italian artists started to use linear perspective in their paintings. The linear perspective system projected the illusion of depth onto a two dimensional plane by use of ‘vanishing points’ to which all lines converged, at eye level, on the horizon. Painted in 1415, it depicted the Baptistery in Florence from the front gate of the unfinished cathedral. The first known picture to make use of linear perspective was created by the Florentine architect Fillipo Brunelleshi (1377-1446). Masaccio – The Tribute Money c.1426-27 Fresco, The Brancacci Chapel, Florence
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