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What was unusual about Mantegna's use of perspective?

  • He only used it in outdoors scenes

  • He lowered the horizon for greater monumentality

  • He didn't use vanishing points

  • He inverted it

Answer

Andrea Mantegna was a 15th century Italian painter. He is known for his innovative use of perspective in his paintings. In particular, he lowered the horizon line in his paintings, which gave his work a greater sense of monumentality. This was a departure from the traditional use of perspective in Renaissance painting, which placed the horizon line at eye level.
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