New Techniques Being put into Use - Masaccio and Fra Angelico

Friar Giovanni da Fiesole, better known as Fra Angelico (c 1400 - 1455), was an artist with a style mixed between Giotto and Masaccio. In the opinion of art historian G. C. Argan, Fra Angelico's construction of space is the most logical result of Mosaccio's discoveries, which weren't so much discoveries as simply genius works of art (the Tribute Money, Expulsion of Adam and Eve, etc). According to Art of the Early Renaissance: "A frankly sweet prettiness tends to make almost all of Fra Angelico's panel figures look like precious painted puppets enacting morality plays or popular scenes from the Bible." Take a look at the Last Judgement.
Now look at Hill Town. Notice the many vanishing points which Angelico carries off with ease and faultless technical skill. "This detail represents an important development in Renaissance landscape painting, a realm of experimental subject matter which, along with nude figures studies and portraiture, was to become one of the period's greatest contributions to the widening range and scope of "modern" western art. "
Masaccio, born Tomaso, Guidi in Valdarno on December 21, 1401 was the type of artist who was overall good but maybe a little too absorbed in his work. The nickname, Msasccio was given to him in light of this (Tom the Slob). Msasccio moved to Florence with his mother, shortly after his father had died and in 1422 joined the guild of painters. Masaccio's Trinita ("Holy Trinity"), is one of the first paintings to employ Brunelleschi's discovery of linear perspective, its classical architecture can also be accredited by Brunelleschi.

"The expulsion of Adam and Eve is a harrowing study in human misery and shame." Masaccio had always been a keen observer of emotion and depth. Humanistic. Genius.