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Perspective
First used by Giotto
 Revived by Massaccio
 defines start of
Renaissance in
painting
 uses vanishing point
 adds realism to
painting
 view Massaccio’s
Trinity
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Compare this use of
perspective to
Byzantine icons
 find the vanishing
point
 see how lines drawn
from the vanishing
point aid in the realism
of the painting
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Massaccio
Revives use of
perspective in 15th
century
 uses pyramid form
 revived Giotto’s idea
of “coherence of art”

Jan van Eyck
Representative of
Northern Renaissance
 known for portraits
 poetic use of verse and
symbols in painting
 view Arnolfini
Marriage

 Italian
painter
 known for classical
subjects
 illustrates importance
of line in painting
 view Birth of Venus