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The art of math

...... Masaccio was the first to take up this approach in painting, though it was already well established in architecture and sculpture, and to use it in his Holy Trinity, produced early in the fifteenth century. This picture was a fresco that showed this startling new style to good advantage. From Donatello Masaccio took the idea of the "clothed nude," meaning that the figures are anatomically correct and have been drawn realistically in the way the clothing fits a real body. Masaccio's picture shows a rational development of space in which the architecture shows a new realism along with the figures. Brunelleschi had also wanted to rationalize architectural design, and this was carried over into the other arts through his discovery of perspective and with a new sense of the relation ships among proportions (Chilvers, Osborne, and Farr 316). Donatello took up the new approach in works like The Feast of Herod, which reflected Brunelleschi's system of linear perspective that now made it possible to represent three-dimensional space on a flat surface in a new way
In the nineteenth century, the prevailing artistic style for the first part of the century was romanticism, an art based on a form of