Detail of St. Peter Raising the Son of Theophilus and St. Peter Enthroned as First Bishop of Antioch, Brancacci Chapel, S. Maria del Carmine, Florence
Born
Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Mone (Simone) Cassai
(1401-12-21)December 21, 1401
San Giovanni Valdarno, Republic of Florence
Died
latter half of 1428 (aged 26)
Rome, Papal States
Nationality
Italian
Known for
Painting, Fresco
Notable work
Brancacci Chapel (Expulsion from the Garden of Eden,Tribute Money) c. 1425–28 Pisa Altarpiece 1426 Holy Trinity c. 1427
Movement
Early Renaissance
Patron(s)
Felice de Michele Brancacci ser Giuliano di Colino degli Scarsi da San Giusto
Masaccio (UK: /mæˈsætʃioʊ/, US: /məˈsɑːtʃioʊ,məˈzɑːtʃ(i)oʊ/,[1][2][3]Italian:[maˈzattʃo]; December 21, 1401 – summer 1428), born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, was a Florentine artist who is regarded as the first great Italian painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. According to Vasari, Masaccio was the best painter of his generation because of his skill at imitating nature, recreating lifelike figures and movements as well as a convincing sense of three-dimensionality.[4] He employed nudes and foreshortenings in his figures. This had seldom been done before him.[5]
The name Masaccio is a humorous version of Maso (short for Tommaso), meaning "clumsy" or "messy" Tom. The name may have been created to distinguish him from his principal collaborator, also called Maso, who came to be known as Masolino ("little/delicate Tom").
Despite his brief career, he had a profound influence on other artists and is considered to have started the Early Italian Renaissance in painting with his works in the mid- and late-1420s. He was one of the first to use linear perspective in his painting, employing techniques such as vanishing point in art for the first time. He moved away from the International Gothic style and elaborate ornamentation of artists like Gentile da Fabriano to a more naturalistic mode that employed perspective and chiaroscuro for greater realism.
Masaccio died at the age of twenty-six and little is known about the exact circumstances of his death.[6] Upon hearing of Masaccio’s death, Filippo Brunelleschi said: "We have suffered a great loss."[5]
^"Masaccio" (US) and "Masaccio". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 2020-03-22.
^"Masaccio". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins. Retrieved June 1, 2019.
^"Masaccio". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Retrieved June 1, 2019.
^Giorgio Vasari, Le Vite de' piu eccellenti pittori, scultori ed architettori, ed. Gaetano Milanesi, Florence, 1906, II, 287–288.
^ abVasari, Giorgio, "The Lives of the Artists" Translated by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella, Oxford World Classics.
^"The Guardian, Masaccio, the old master who died young". TheGuardian.com. 7 July 2008.
Masaccio (UK: /mæˈsætʃioʊ/, US: /məˈsɑːtʃioʊ, məˈzɑːtʃ(i)oʊ/, Italian: [maˈzattʃo]; December 21, 1401 – summer 1428), born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone...
Italian Early Renaissance artist Masaccio. The fresco is a single scene from the cycle painted around 1425 by Masaccio, Masolino and others on the walls...
Coluccio Salutati, among others. Filippo Brunelleschi, Donatello and Masaccio's innovations in the figurative arts at the very beginning of the 15th century...
Masolino da Panicale to paint his chapel. Masolino's associate, 21-year-old Masaccio, 18 years younger than Masolino, assisted, but during painting Masolino...
the Magi 1424: Masaccio, Virgin and Child with St. Anne 1425: Masaccio, Portrait of a Young Man 1426: Masaccio, Crucifixion 1426: Masaccio, The Madonna...
sculpture, which manifested itself as early as the 1420s in the paintings of Masaccio and Uccello. The improvement of oil paint and developments in oil-painting...
Masaccio is important for developing naturalistic depiction of 3D space containing figures conceived as accurate plastic objects. In his paintings the...
centuries and having significant influence outside Italy. Artists such as Masaccio, Filippo Lippi, Tintoretto, Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo...
exemplified in the sculpture of Nicola Pisano, Florentine painters led by Masaccio strove to portray the human form realistically, developing techniques to...
Italian painter. His best known works are probably his collaborations with Masaccio: Madonna with Child and St. Anne (1424) and the frescoes in the Brancacci...
Andrea was heavily influenced by masters Lorenzo Monaco, Bicci di Lorenzo, Masaccio, and Fra Angelico, and tended to mix and match the motifs and techniques...
traditionally portrayed with a long forked beard, a cross, and a book. Masaccio's 1426 "Saint Andrew" is a panel painting in tempora and gold leaf, once...
new age came the humanization of religious figures in art, such as in Masaccio's Expulsion from the Garden of Eden and Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola;...
halfway along the left aisle, is a pioneering early Renaissance work of Masaccio, showing his new ideas about perspective and mathematical proportions....
of the most important artists of the Renaissance and Baroque, including Masaccio, Perugino, Titian and Vermeer, and was often reserved for the clothing...
(Italian: Polittico di Pisa) was a large multi-paneled altarpiece produced by Masaccio for the chapel of Saint Julian in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine...
Gaddi, Orcagna, and Altichiero. The Early Renaissance style was started by Masaccio and then further developed by Fra Angelico, Paolo Uccello, Piero della...
wearing the more sober colors of an older woman. Italian Renaissance painter Masaccio took up the subject around 1424. Leonardo da Vinci did an oil painting...
young artist, known as Masaccio, was working on the frescoes for the Brancacci Chapel at the church of the Carmine. Masaccio had fully grasped the implications...
Herod, Lorenzo Monaco, c. 1400 The Beheading of St. John the Baptist, Masaccio, 1426 Banquet of Herod, Masolino da Panicale, 1435 Herod's Banquet, Fra...
Pisano, renewers of architecture and sculpture; Brunelleschi, Donatello and Masaccio, forefathers of the Renaissance; Ghiberti and the Della Robbias, Filippo...
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