Renaissance art involved an artist.
Masaccio ( [ maˈzattʃo ] ; December 21 , 1401 -- summer 1428 ) , born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone , was the first great Italian painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance . Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi ( 1396 -- 1472 ) was an Italian architect and sculptor . Renaissance art . 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 .