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the 1400s
The Early Renaissance
Europe rediscovers realism, perspective and the beauty of the human body.
🔍 How to spot it
Three giveaways that tell you what you're looking at — even for a painting
you've never seen. Each detail below is magnified from the work named beside it.
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Perspective, proudly shown. Tiled floors and coffered ceilings converge to one point — the new trick, and they want you to notice.
detail from Holy Trinity — Masaccio
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Sculptural weight. Bodies stand with weight on one leg, modelled like carved stone with real volume.
detail from The Birth of Venus — Sandro Botticelli
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Crisp and jewel-bright. Hard contours, even daylight, and clean tempera colour with no smoky edges.
detail from The Arnolfini Portrait — Jan van Eyck
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💡 Crisp outlines, tiled floors racing to a vanishing point, sculptural bodies in clear daylight.
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The works
6 paintings in this chapter.
