Masaccio
21 December 1401 – 1428
Masaccio (Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone) was a Florentine painter regarded as the first great master of the Italian Renaissance. In a career of barely six years he revolutionized painting through his use of scientific perspective and naturalistic modeling, most famously in the Brancacci Chapel frescoes and the Holy Trinity. He died in Rome at only twenty-six.
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Life events
Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone was born to a notary's family in the Tuscan town of San Giovanni Valdarno.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis earliest surviving work, a triptych for the church of San Giovenale at Cascia di Reggello, already shows his break with Gothic convention.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgMasaccio joined the Arte de' Medici e Speziali, the Florentine guild that included painters, marking his emergence as an independent master.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgMasaccio began working alongside the older painter Masolino, with whom he painted the Madonna and Child with Saint Anne.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWith Masolino, Masaccio frescoed the Brancacci Chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, including The Tribute Money and The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, landmarks of Renaissance naturalism.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgMasaccio was commissioned to paint a large polyptych for the Carmelite church in Pisa, whose surviving panels are now dispersed among museums.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis Holy Trinity in Florence is among the earliest paintings to employ rigorous single-point linear perspective.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgMasaccio left Florence for Rome, where Masolino was working, leaving the Brancacci Chapel cycle unfinished.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgMasaccio died suddenly in Rome in the autumn of 1428; rumors of poisoning were never substantiated.
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