Transcript Masaccio- Italian Painter

Masaccio- Italian Painter
By: Catherine Scibetta
About Him..
• Masaccio was originally named Tommaso
Cassai.
• The name Masaccio means 'big Tommaso'
• In 1422 he joined the Florence painters guild.
• Along with Brunelleschi and Donatello, he was
a founder of the Renaissance.
• Most of his paintings were altarpieces or
church frescoes.
Sant'Andrea
Famous Art
• He painted many famous frescoes in the
Brancacci Chapel in Florence, Italy.
• One of the frescoes was the Expulsion From
The Garden of Eden.
• A famous painting is Virgin and Child with
Saint Anne which they think was worked on
with Masolino another artist in this era.
• Another famous fresco is The Holy Trinity in
the Santa Maria Novella church in Florence.
The Holy Trinity
Career
• Masaccio’s frescoes are the earliest
monuments of Humanism.
• Although his career was short he had a great
influence on other artists.
• Masaccio was one of the first artists to use
scientific perspective in his paintings.
• All of his works were religious in some way.
Masaccio
Facts
• Masaccio is one of the first to use perspective
to suggest depth in a flat surface.
• Sadly most of his masterpieces were
destroyed.
• In his paintings he moved away from the
Gothic ideas of his time into more of a realism
view.
• Only four frescoes still stand today.
St. Peter Healing with his Shadow