Practice question · Put in order
Order these Renaissance milestones.
- Brunelleschi’s dome rises over Florence (1420–36)
- Giotto restores weight and human emotion (~1305)
- Brunelleschi’s perspective demonstration (~1413)
- Alberti codifies perspective in Della pittura (1435)
- Leonardo perfects sfumato (~1500)
Hints
- Emotional naturalism precedes the geometric system.
- The dissolving of hard outlines comes last.
Show the answer
- Giotto restores weight and human emotion (~1305)
- Brunelleschi’s perspective demonstration (~1413)
- Brunelleschi’s dome rises over Florence (1420–36)
- Alberti codifies perspective in Della pittura (1435)
- Leonardo perfects sfumato (~1500)
Why
Feeling, then geometry, then engineering, then a textbook, then the dissolving of the very outlines geometry made possible. Two centuries, and the Western picture is rebuilt from the eye outward.
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