Brunelleschi is credited with being the first to use geometric principles for creating linear perspective.
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Brunelleschi is important on many accounts, e.g. he was the first to master perspective drawing, but he is best known for constructing the dome of the Florence cathedral.
He was the first painter to make use of the linear perspective, discovered by his friends Brunelleschi.
The correct answer is D: Masaccio,(1401-1428),Massaccio is considered by many to be the first important artist of the Italian Renaissance. Above all else he is thought of the first naturalistic artist.
The dome of Florence was huge, that technology had been lost after the collapse of the Roman empire. Brunelleschi literally had to make it up as he went along. A lot of the Renaissance art, especially in Italy, was about rediscovering the Roman techniques. For example, the Renaissance was the first time in hundreds of years that anyone could build an equestrian statue.
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