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Andrea Mantegna
Andrea Mantegna (Italian:
[anˈdrɛːa manˈteɲɲa];
c. 1431 – September 13,
1506) was an Italian
painter, a student of
Roman archeology, and
son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini.
Like other artists of the time,
Mantegna experimented
with perspective, e.g. by
lowering the horizon in order to create a
sense of greater monumentality.
His flinty, metallic landscapes and
somewhat stony figures give evidence of
a fundamentally sculptural approach to
painting. He also led a
workshop that was the
leading producer of
prints in Venice before
1500.
Sandro Botticelli
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni
Filipepi, known as Sandro Botticelli
(Italian: [ˈsandro bottiˈtʃɛlli]; c. 1445[2] –
May 17, 1510), was an Italian painter
of the Early Renaissance.
He painted a
wide range of
religious subjects
and some
portraits, as well as
a small number of
mythological subjects.
Botticelli's best-known works are The
Birth of
Venus and
Primavera.
Masaccio
Masaccio (Italian:
[maˈzattʃo]; December
21, 1401 – summer 1428),
born Tommaso di Ser
Giovanni di Simone, was
the first great Italian
painter of the
Quattrocento period of
the Italian Renaissance.
Despite his brief career,
he had a profound
influence on other
artists. He was
one of the first
to use linear
perspective in
his painting,
employing
techniques such as vanishing point in
art for the first time. He moved away
from the International Gothic style and
elaborate ornamentation of artists like
Gentile da Fabriano to a more
naturalistic mode that employed
perspective and chiaroscuro for
greater realism.

Jan van
Eyck
Jan van Eyck (Dutch:
[ˈjɑn vɑn ˈɛik]) (before c.
1390 – 9 July 1441) was a
Flemish painter active in
Bruges.
Van Eyck painted both
secular and religious
subject matter, including
altarpieces, single panel religious
figures and commissioned portraits.
Van Eyck's work comes from the
International Gothic style, but he soon
eclipsed it, in part through a greater
emphasis on naturalism and realism.
Through his developments in the use of
oil paint he achieved a new level of
virtuosity. Van Eyck was highly
influential and his techniques and style
were adopted and refined by the
Early Netherlandish painters.
Paolo Uccello
Paolo Uccello (Italian
pronunciation: [ˈpaːolo
utˈtʃɛllo]; 1397 – 10
December 1475), born
Paolo di Dono, was an
Italian painter and
mathematician who
was notable for his
pioneering work on
visual perspective in art.
Paolo worked in the
Late Gothic tradition, emphasizing
colour and
pageantry
rather than
the classical
realism that
other artists
were
pioneering. His style is best described
as idiosyncratic, and he left no school
of followers. He has had a large
amount of influence on twentieth-
century art and literary criticism.

Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer
(/ˈdʊərər,
ˈdjʊərər/;
German:
[ˈalbʁɛçt ˈdyːʁɐ];
21 May 1471 – 6
April 1528) was a
painter,
printmaker, and
theorist of the
German
Renaissance.
Dürer's vast body of work includes
engravings,
his preferred
technique in
his later
prints,
altarpieces,
portraits and
self-portraits, watercolors and books.
Dürer's introduction of classical motifs
into Northern art, through his
knowledge of Italian artists and
German humanists, has secured his
reputation as one of the most
important figures of the Northern
Renaissance. This is reinforced by his
theoretical treatises, which involve
principles of mathematics,
perspective, and ideal proportions.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht
_D%C3%BCrer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masacci
o
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_
Mantegna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van
_Eyck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandro_B
otticelli
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Uc
cello#/media/File:Paolo_Uccello_047b
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