How innovative were Brunelleschi, Donatello and Masaccio in pioneering a distinctive new art style in Florence during the first half of the fifteenth century?

... How innovative were Brunelleschi, Donatello and Masaccio in pioneering a distinctive new art style in Florence during the first half of the fifteenth century? Seonaid MacLeod VI CRB Art in Renaissance Florence certainly marked a departure from the previous style that was seen during the Middle Ages, so named by Renaissance artists because they saw this period as a 'dark age' between the classical style they so admired and the rebirth of art that the Renaissance encouraged. New ideas based on the classical artistic thinking inspired a group of Florentine artists who were desperate to break away from the international Gothic style and revive classical technique, either for personal motives, as Gombrich believes, or because of the desires of their patrons. The gothic that this group was so opposed to was actually quite a beautiful form, inspired by the artists' observation of delicacy and beauty. The previously illusive quality of religious works

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