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A favorite compositional device of the renaissance painter, used to unify a work of art and focus attention on the subject is the:

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I believe the correct answer is form of pyramid.

The pyramid composition was popular compositional device in Renaissance. This composition objects and figures within the outline of an imaginary pyramid on the picture plane and that way brings viewer’s attention to the main subject. Some of the examples of pyramid construction are Masaccio's “Trinity”, Leonardo's “Last Supper” and Michelangelo's “Pieta”.

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