What Renaissance artists Frescos have long been regarded as the first masterpieces of early Renaissance art?

The same as the purpose of any art- to try and reveal some innate truth about nature through a display of beauty.

Leonardo Da Vinci

some were massaccio, fra angelico, piero della francesca and sandro botticelli.

Early renaissance was very different b/c they were just getting started..... What began in the Early Renaissance was perfected in the High Renaissance.

Art in the Renaissance was much like the classical period because of its 3 dimensional look. People of the Renaissance liked the style of the classical period(ancient Greece and Rome) and copied...