HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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drama
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sculpture
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two-dimensional art
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the sonnet form of poetry
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Detailed explanation-1: -Linear perspective is a technique used to create the illusion of depth in a work of art on a two-dimensional surface. The technique is achieved by choosing a vanishing point on the horizon line and developing a checkerboard pattern of intersecting lines from this point.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the early 1400s, the Italian architect Filippo Brunelleschi (1377–1446) reintroduced a means of rendering the recession of space, called linear perspective. In Brunelleschi’s technique, lines appear to converge at a single fixed point in the distance.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1427 Masaccio won a commission to paint for the prestigious Santa Maria Novella in Florence. The fresco is regarded as Masaccio’s masterpiece, and is the first time linear perspective was systematically and almost perfectly applied to painting.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Humanism Movement The Renaissance included an intellectual movement known as Humanism. Among its many principles, humanism promoted the idea that humans are at the center of their own universe and should embrace human achievements in education, classical arts, literature and science.