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Masaccio (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.
May 17, 2020 · Before there was Leonardo or Michelangelo, the 14th century painter Masaccio was paving the way for Italian Renaissance art with his realistic painting.
Masaccio was the first painter in the Renaissance to incorporate Brunelleschi's discovery, linear perspective, in his art. He did this in his fresco, the Holy Trinity, in Santa Maria Novella, in Florence.
Masaccio was the most revolutionary painter of the Early Renaissance. The Virgin and Child in the National Gallery is the central fragment of one of his most important works, a polyptych made at the age of 25 for the church of the Carmine in Pisa.
Masaccio was born in Castel San Giovanni (now called San Giovanni Valdarno, province of Arezzo) on 21 December 1401. Already by October of 1418 he was working as a painter and living in Florence.
Masaccio is the artistic heir of Giotto, yet there is no indication of direct borrowing from the older master. He was also a friend of Brunelleschi and from him may have learned perspective and the concept of a clear and rationally articulated space.
The Trinity, fresco created about 1427 in the Church of Santa Maria Novella by the early Renaissance Florentine artist Masaccio. It is likely to be the artist’s final work in Florence. The Trinity is often cited as the first major painting to use one-point linear perspective.
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