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Rick Steves' Europe
Art Bites 162: Early Renaissance Painting: Giotto, Masaccio, Fra Angelico
The painters Giotto (a century before the others), Masaccio (who mastered the illusion of depth), and Fra Angelico (for whom painting was a form of prayer) brought art from medieval two-dimensional to more life-like 3-D.
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