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The cijnspenning Painting ID:: 42616
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MASACCIO The cijnspenning MK169
ca. 1427 Fresco 254x590cm
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The Saint Three-unity Painting ID:: 42617
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MASACCIO The Saint Three-unity MK169
1425 Fresco 667x317cm
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Verdrijving from the paradise Painting ID:: 42618
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MASACCIO Verdrijving from the paradise MK169
ca. 1427 Fresco Brancacci-chapel
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The Virgin and Child with Angels Painting ID:: 42832
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MASACCIO The Virgin and Child with Angels mk170
1426
Tempera on poplar
135.5x73cm
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Saints Jerome and john the Baptist Painting ID:: 42833
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MASACCIO Saints Jerome and john the Baptist mk170
1428
Tempera on poplar
114x55cm
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MASACCIO
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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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