When1: 1400
When2: 1500
Who: Early Renaissance
What: art period
Where: Italy
Detail: Early Renaissance began as Italy revived classical ideas, compared Greek city-states to Italian city-states, and learned about linear perspective from al-Hazen's book. Early Renaissance painting was first to project scenes onto surfaces as they appeared to painters, using sightlines. Early Renaissance was humanistic and individualistic art and included Florentine style. Early Renaissance included Brunelleschi, Masaccio, and Donatello.
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