Relation to Other Artists
Masolino da Panicale painted many accurate perspectives from 1423-1436.
The young Masaccio worked with Masolino but did not start painting in perspective until 1425. Claims that Masaccio designed all Masolino’s perspectives are entirely speculative and prejudicial.
Contemporaries such as Uccello, Donatello, Sassetta and van Eyck did not employ accurate perspective constructions.
Brunelleschi’s role in the introduction of perspective remains obscure because his two panels have not survived and there are no accurate paintings following the geometry of his demonstrations.
The predominant development of perspective by Mantegna, Piero della Francesca, Leonardo, Raphael and others was after the Papal Jubilee of 1450, when many artists had the opportunity to view each others’ work.
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