... was more important than the "pull" of foreign countries " (4). Which means that some humanist left Italy because they were forced to. For example, two conspiracies forced Filippo Buonaccorsi and Luigi Alamanni out of Italy. Filippo was involved in a conspiracy against Pope Paul II and was forced to leave to Poland where he became very famous. Luigi was forced out of Florence for ... ...

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... the distance-as this happens they seem to grow smaller and closer together till they finally come together at the horizon line. Perspective goes back long before the famous artists Filippo Brunelleschi or Leon Battista Alberti. Some of these philosophers and painters include Euclid, Roger Bacon, and Robert Grosseteste. They all examined perspective in relation to their studies of optics, but ... representation, to what extent the relationship would change when there was a shift in distance or in the angle of vision. It wasn't until around 1400 when the Italian Renaissance artist, Filipp...

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... court painter of the Duke include "Lucrezia" ", "Cosimo" "and "Eleonora "" (Pilliod, 175). These pieces have received increased attention due to the meticulous details the artist so realistic recreated on canvas. Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446), is considered one of the most prolific Italian architects of the Early Renaissance. He has been created with creating linear perspective as well as designing the dome ... ...

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... completed. When the main part of the cathedral was finished, a 140 foot space was left open to the sky because of no probable way of closing it off. In 1420, Filippo Brunelleschi, with the knowledge from studying architecture after his loss of the baptistery commission, took on the challenge of making a dome to fit over the space that would be structurally ... ...

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