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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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Adoration of the Magi
mk86
1426
Tempera on wood
21x61cm
Painting ID:: 33363
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Adoration_of_the_Magi
mk86
1426
Tempera on wood
21x61cm
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The Trinity
mk86
1425/26
Fresco
667x317cm
Florence,Santa Maria Novella
Painting ID:: 33372
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The_Trinity
mk86
1425/26
Fresco
667x317cm
Florence,Santa Maria Novella
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St Peter distributes the Goods of the Community and The Death of Ananias
mk86
c.1426/27
Fresco
230x162cm
Florence
Painting ID:: 33373
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St_Peter_distributes_the_Goods_of_the_Community_and_The_Death_of_Ananias
mk86
c.1426/27
Fresco
230x162cm
Florence
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The Tribute Money
mk86
1426/27
Fresco
255x598cm
Florence,Santa Maria del Carmine
Brancacci Chapel
Painting ID:: 33374
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The_Tribute_Money
mk86
1426/27
Fresco
255x598cm
Florence,Santa Maria del Carmine
Brancacci Chapel
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Petrus und der Zollner
mk92
1425
Florenz,
Sa.Maria del Carmine,Brancacci Kapelle
Painting ID:: 34362
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Petrus_und_der_Zollner
mk92
1425
Florenz,
Sa.Maria del Carmine,Brancacci Kapelle
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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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