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Masaccio
Masaccio (, ,[1][2][3]Italian: [maˈzattʃo]; December 21, 1401 – summer 1428), born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, was a famous painter of the ItalianRenaissance. He worked in Florence. Masaccio was a nickname that meant Fat Untidy Tom. He lived a very short life and only a few of his paintings exist, but they were so different to the style of other artists around him that they helped other painters to see things in a new way.
Biography
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[change | change source]Masaccio was born on 21 December, 1401, in the town of San Giovanni Valdarno, in the valley of the Arno River, near Florence. He was the son of a notary, a person who writes legal documents. His older brother became a painter and moved to Florence to the workshop of a painter called Bicci di Lorenzo. It is not known for certain, but it is thought that Masaccio may have trained at the same workshop. Masaccio's brother was nicknamed Lo Scheggia which means The Splinter, so it is thought that he was a skinny as Masaccio.
In 1422, when he was 21, Masaccio was already known as a painter, because he joined the Company of Saint Luke, which was a guild that helped artists and set down the rules for their employ
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masaccio.jpg">Masaccio (Tommaso di ser Giovanni Cassai) was born at San Giovanni Valdarno around the end of 1401; he moved to Florence in 1419 and as of 1422 was already a member of the Guild of Physicians and Herbalists. The Giovenale Triptych that he painted for the church of San Pietro a Cascia in Regello dates from that same year. In 1424 he joined the Compagnia di San Luca, and with Masolino, painted Virgin and Child with St. Anne. The cooperation between the two artists continued in the frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine. In 1426 the notary Giovanni di Colino degli Scarsi commissioned him to painted a polyptych (that has been dismantled) for the church of the Carmine in Pisa. The fresco of The Trinity in the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence that suggests a real space in pictorial invention is the clearest achievement of Brunelleschian perspective in painting. Sometime around 1428 he joined Masolino in Rome and together they worked on the Colonna Altarpiece for the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore and on the decorations for Cardinal Branda Castiglione’s chapel in the church of San Clement. Masaccio died in 1428 during a particularly unhealthy summer that caused thousands of deat
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