MASACCIO
Italian Early Renaissance Painter, 1401-1428 was the first great painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. His frescoes are the earliest monuments of Humanism, and introduce a plasticity previously unseen in figure painting. The name Masaccio is a humorous version of Tommaso, meaning "big", "fat", "clumsy" or "messy" Tom. The name was created to distinguish him from his principal collaborator, also called Tommaso, who came to be known as Masolino ("little/delicate Tom"). Despite his brief career, he had a profound influence on other artists. He was one of the first to use scientific perspective in his painting, employing techniques such as vanishing point in art for the first time. He also moved away from the Gothic style and elaborate ornamentation of artists like Gentile da Fabriano to a more natural mode that employed perspective for greater realism. Masaccio was born to Giovanni di Mone Cassa??i and Jacopa di Martinozzo in Castel San Giovanni di Altura, now San Giovanni Valdarno (now part of the province of Arezzo, Tuscany). His father was a notary and his mother the daughter of an innkeeper of Barberino di Mugello, a town a few miles south of Florence. His family name, Cassai, comes from the trade of his grandfather Simone and granduncle Lorenzo, who were carpenters - cabinet makers ("casse", hence "cassai"). His father died in 1406, when Tommaso was only five; in that year another brother was born, called Giovanni after the dead father. He also was to become a painter, with the nickname of "Scheggia" meaning "splinter". The mother was remarried to an elderly apothecary, Tedesco, who guaranteed Masaccio and his family a comfortable childhood.

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MASACCIO Frescoes in the Cappella Brancacci oil painting


Frescoes in the Cappella Brancacci
1426-82 Fresco
Painting ID::  32377
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Frescoes in the Cappella Brancacci
1426-82 Fresco
   
   
     

MASACCIO The Distribution of Alms and the Death of Ananias oil painting


The Distribution of Alms and the Death of Ananias
1426-27 Fresco, 230 x 162 cm
Painting ID::  32380
MASACCIO
The Distribution of Alms and the Death of Ananias
1426-27 Fresco, 230 x 162 cm
   
   
     

MASACCIO The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden oil painting


The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden
1426-27 Fresco, 208 x 88 cm
Painting ID::  32382
MASACCIO
The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden
1426-27 Fresco, 208 x 88 cm
   
   
     

MASACCIO San Giovenale Triptych oil painting


San Giovenale Triptych
1422 Panel
Painting ID::  32383
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San Giovenale Triptych
1422 Panel
   
   
     

MASACCIO St Jerome and St John the Baptist oil painting


St Jerome and St John the Baptist
1428 Panel, 114 x 55 cm
Painting ID::  32385
MASACCIO
St Jerome and St John the Baptist
1428 Panel, 114 x 55 cm
   
   
     

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     MASACCIO
     Italian Early Renaissance Painter, 1401-1428 was the first great painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. His frescoes are the earliest monuments of Humanism, and introduce a plasticity previously unseen in figure painting. The name Masaccio is a humorous version of Tommaso, meaning "big", "fat", "clumsy" or "messy" Tom. The name was created to distinguish him from his principal collaborator, also called Tommaso, who came to be known as Masolino ("little/delicate Tom"). Despite his brief career, he had a profound influence on other artists. He was one of the first to use scientific perspective in his painting, employing techniques such as vanishing point in art for the first time. He also moved away from the Gothic style and elaborate ornamentation of artists like Gentile da Fabriano to a more natural mode that employed perspective for greater realism. Masaccio was born to Giovanni di Mone Cassa??i and Jacopa di Martinozzo in Castel San Giovanni di Altura, now San Giovanni Valdarno (now part of the province of Arezzo, Tuscany). His father was a notary and his mother the daughter of an innkeeper of Barberino di Mugello, a town a few miles south of Florence. His family name, Cassai, comes from the trade of his grandfather Simone and granduncle Lorenzo, who were carpenters - cabinet makers ("casse", hence "cassai"). His father died in 1406, when Tommaso was only five; in that year another brother was born, called Giovanni after the dead father. He also was to become a painter, with the nickname of "Scheggia" meaning "splinter". The mother was remarried to an elderly apothecary, Tedesco, who guaranteed Masaccio and his family a comfortable childhood.

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