renaissance art involved an artist
the revival of a style of architecture based on classical precedents inspired a corresponding classicism in painting and sculpture  which manifested itself as early as the 1420s in the paintings of masaccio and uccello
masaccio lrb lsb mazatto rsb  december 21  1401  summer 1428 rrb  born tommaso di ser giovanni di simone  was the first great italian painter of the quattrocento period of the italian renaissance