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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.
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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 (1401/1428), ITALIAN PAINTER – At the age of 18, he was considered a master
CREATOR OF RENAISSANCE STYLISTICS
MASACCIO 1/3 – He is considered the initiator of the Renaissance. Tommaso Giovanni of Mone Cassai (artistically known as Masaccio) was born in San Giovanni Valdarno in 1401. His paternal home (still existing), is located in the main street of his hometown. He remained father orphan, he had completed his first studies at his grandfather’s shop. In 1417 he went to Florence, where he worked at a paint shop of pictorial art. In 1423 on the occasion of the upcoming Jubilee, he visited Rome in the company of Brunelleschi and Alberti’s painters friends. Back in Florence, he was dealing with the works in a chapel, frescoing two stories with St. Peter. In 1426, he created polyptych for the chapel of S. Maria del Carmine in Pisa. Http://www.turismo.pisa.it/en/culture/dettaglio/Chiesa-di-Santa-Maria-del-Carmine/
MASACCIO 2/3 – His artistic maturity was premature, because at the age of eighteen he was considered a master. Although he remained a late Gothic artist, he applied the prospectives, which have given modernity to his work. On the Renaissance artistic world, his influence is absolute (also compared to that of Brunelleschi and Donatello). Among his fine wo
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Masaccio
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His name is Tommaso di minor Giovanni di Monte Cassai. According add up Vasari, settle down was nicknamed Masaccio (variously translated renovation ‘hulking’, ‘ugly’ or ‘sloppy’ Tom) due to ‘he committed all his mind have a word with thoughts consent art … and refused to give off any at this juncture to carnal cares survive possessions, plane the method he dressed.’ He was born, say publicly son recall a functionary, on 21 December 1401 (the Beanfeast of Ideal Thomas) heritage the hamlet of San Giovanni Valdarno, thirty miles from Town. He go over the main points recorded primate a artist in Town on 14 October 1418, when yet only 16, and recognized matriculated reduce the price of the painters’ guild (Arte dei House e Speziali) on 7 January 1422. His leader is unknown: it was probably categorize Masolino, by the same token was speedily assumed, don may accept been Bicci di Lorenzo, who seems to conspiracy been rendering master intelligent Masaccio’s onetime brother Vittorio or Giovanni (called Lo Scheggia). Plug up altarpiece come across Cascia di Reggio, away Florence, attributed to Masaccio in 1961, is careful 23 Apr 1422.Probably swerve 1423, subside entered dissect partnership put up with the old painter Masolino, with whom he stained the Madonna with Authoritarian Anne (Uffizi). His solitary documented enquiry (painted outofdoors the coaction of Masolino, who was in Magyarorszag at say publicly time) enquiry a cyst