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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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mk247
c.1426,fresco,100x234 in,255x598cm,brancacci chapel,santa maria del carmine,florence,ltaly
Painting ID:: 55926
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mk247
c.1426,fresco,100x234 in,255x598cm,brancacci chapel,santa maria del carmine,florence,ltaly
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Virgin and Child
mk247
1426,egg tempera on wood 53.125x29 in,135x73.5cm,national gallery.london,uk
Painting ID:: 55927
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Virgin_and_Child
mk247
1426,egg tempera on wood 53.125x29 in,135x73.5cm,national gallery.london,uk
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The Trinity
mk247
1428,fresco,262.5x124.875 in,667x317 cm,santa maria novella,florence,ltaly
Painting ID:: 55928
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The_Trinity
mk247
1428,fresco,262.5x124.875 in,667x317 cm,santa maria novella,florence,ltaly
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Holy Trinity
mk250 Florence, Italy, and Maria church, about the year 1428. Frescoes, 640.1 x 317.5 cm.
Painting ID:: 56803
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Holy_Trinity
mk250 Florence, Italy, and Maria church, about the year 1428. Frescoes, 640.1 x 317.5 cm.
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Mary exciting
mk261 Florence in 1426 egg tempera of wood 24.5 x 18 cm
Painting ID:: 58291
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Mary_exciting
mk261 Florence in 1426 egg tempera of wood 24.5 x 18 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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