came to be classified as Renaissance, such as perspective and
             curvy shapes(see fig.2), as well as some methods which are classified as Gothic, such as
             gold paint, large, fancy frames and immense haloes around the heads of all religious
             figures(see fig.3). Giotto's best display of work is in the Arena chapel.
             Another contributor to the development of perspective was Filippo Brunelleschi, a
             Florentine architect. He discovered that painters could use mathematical laws in planning
             their pictures. "This shows an actual point of view through the technique of perspective."2
             It was he who officially "discovered" the idea of the horizon line and the vanishing point.
             He figured out these mathematical laws using a series of different experiments including the
             mirror test. In the mirror test, he would hold up a mirror in front of a building and paint
             directly on top of the building's reflection in the mirror. He would then place another
             mirror directly in front of the existing mirror with the painting on it. Since the reflection of
             the painting looked the same as the existing building, he knew that his efforts had been
             One of the final artists to perfect the style of perspective painting was Maso di Ser
             Giovanni di Mone -- Masaccio. Since he lived during a later time period, his paintings
             abandoned all use of Gothic style and had strictly Renaissance characteristics. He was one
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