... 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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... displayed at a smaller scale than those that were intended to be closer, as they would seem like you were looking at them in real-life. Artists like Giotto di Bondone , Filippo Brunelleschi, Leon Battista Alberti, Piero della Francesca and Masaccio, who was considered the master of it, were just some of the artists who used perspective. Brunelleschi would make the first ... ...

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... -1466) spent time in Rome studying and copying the statues of antiquity. His statue of David, is the first known life-size freestanding bronze nude in European art since antiquity. Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) was a friend of Donatello and accompanied him to Rome. He gained much inspiration from the architectural monuments of Roman antiquity that when he returned he was commissioned ... ...

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... influential powers during the Renaissance. The arts were extremely important to the Renaissance, and very influential. Architecture was modeled after classical Greek and Roman stylings. The greatest Italian architect was Filippo Brunelleschi, who was best known for his completion of a cathedral in 1436. Sculpture, as did architecture, reflected ancient Greek and Roman ideas. The best known sculptors were Donatello, Michelangelo and ... ...

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