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The Brancacci Tomb shows Donatello using the opportunities of a combination of shallow relief "Rilievo schiacciato" Flattened out, with the perspective effects. It is a form of low carving that the sculptor appears to paint with his chisel. Blind people with their fingertips can read it.

funeral monument of cardinal rainaldo brancacci