Claim: Renaissance art involved an artist.
Evidence: The revival of a style of architecture based on classical precedents inspired a corresponding classicism in painting and sculpture , which manifested itself as early as the 1420s in the paintings of Masaccio and Uccello.
Masaccio -LRB- -LSB- maˈzattʃo -RSB- ; December 21 , 1401 -- summer 1428 -RRB- , born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone , was the first great Italian painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance.