>>5916815No, he was just a pioneer, while the other guys were like "haha uba buga symbol drawing, determined and established patterns of symbolic language applied to religious imagery", he was like "yo what if we just look at the body instead, like, literally".
And that's what he did, he was one of the best in his time not because he was the best technically, but because he was the one who got the most out of the mold to learn what would later be the contemporary "fundamentals" that we all know, along with the other group of people who started using perspective, and color work to improve composition, and foreshortening.
That's why later there were guys who were objectively much more powerful in technical work and painting skills, they were simply the first, and being the first and the ones who do the most is quite important historically speaking.
It is necessary to remember that precisely before this, literal people painted based on the same canons and the technique was learned by guides and fixed procedures that were transferred from worker to worker, and anyone could do them because the person who did them didn't matter, it was just another worker. Long before that, they were even simple slaves who specialized in painting.
Individualizing allowed them to learn the art beyond a common mechanical job of the past.
