Masaccio
Tommaso di Giovanni Cassis or said Masaccio was born in San Giovanni Altura (now San Giovanni Valdarno , near Arezzo ) on 21 December 1401 , and died in Rome around 1428 , is a painter Italian.
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Formative Years
His father, Giovanni di Mone Cassai is a craftsman became a notary. He died when Tommaso was 5 years old in 1406, the year his younger brother was born, Giovanni (later to become a painter also known as Lo Scheggia ). His mother, Mona di Jacops Martinozzo, remarried Tedesco del Maestro Feo, a spice merchant, a widower and much older, which guarantees the family a comfortable lifestyle. With her mother and brother (who live with him until his death), he moved to Florence in 1417. He entered the shop Bicci di Lorenzo , where he became familiar with the works of Donatello and Brunelleschi. It owes its nickname, which means "idiot" in his distraction and fantasy.
In 1419 , he was already recognized as dipintore, that is to say, a painter in Florence The mural destroyed In 1422 , Masaccio left the workshop Bicci di Lorenzo. He attends the ceremony of consecration of the church Santa Maria del Carmine. He is responsible for implementing a fresco depicting the consecration, which was destroyed fresco at the end of the sixteenth century , during renovation work of the convent of Santa Maria del Carmine
Association with Masolino
In 1424 began his artistic collaboration with Masolino da Panicale , twenty years her senior.
Their first joint is Sainte Anne, the Virgin and Child with five angels, kept in the Uffizi in Florence. The Virgin and Child and two angels are assigned to Masaccio, St. Anne and the other angels to Masolino.
But it is with the magnificent frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel , the church Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence, which intensified their collaboration.
They painted together, sharing the scenes of the chapel from 1424 and until 1427 or 1428. They then leave the work unfinished. Filippino Lippi completed the cycle in 1481 and 1482.
Masolino and Masaccio painted so each Adam and Eve: Masolino represents Paradise, Masaccio and expelled from Eden by God's wrath.
Masaccio is remarkable for its realism. No one else before him has represented both the expressions and postures of his characters. No one has come so far in the accuracy of scenery, landscapes and streets Florentine of his time.
We read on the faces of Eve and in the attitude of Adam expelled from Paradise, their immense despair. Next, the fresco representing Masolino original sin in Paradise "demonstrated a clear lack of psychological insight" . No more stiff attitudes painted by contemporaries and predecessors of Masaccio. Daniel Arasse also highlights how, in the paintings of Masaccio, the characters have their feet firmly on earth, unlike Figures Gothic , which seem to stand on tiptoe.
It was probably in 1674 during the reign of the bigoted Cosimo III de 'Medici , the nakedness of Adam and Eve were clothed with leaves. The restoration of 1980 allowed to return to the original state and uncensored.
The maturity, "arch that goes into the wall"
During the year 1426, during periods of interruption of his work in the Brancacci Chapel, Masaccio achieves Polyptych of Pisa. This is the command of a notary, against a salary of 80 guilders. Today polyptych is incomplete and scattered in eleven tracks, five museums on two continents (see list of works). It has all the characteristics of the maturity of the artist. The physiognomy of the characters deeply collected, the throne of the Madonna in perspective , the vanishing of the Crucifixion, placed above the central panel, exceed the gothic conventions and create a real space Posterity Masaccio died at the age of 27 in mysterious circumstances during a visit to Rome with Masolino da Panicale.
It is considered the greatest painter of early Renaissance and is traditionally presented as the first modern painter. It has in fact introduced in Western art the notion of truth optics, perspective and volume. Works
(1426) dismembered and dispersed 
National Gallery of Art , Washington (DC)
(C. 1425) 
polyptych Pisa
Capodimonte Museum of Naples Treaties on his paintings
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External Links
on Giorgio Vasari cites Masaccio and described in his biography : pp. 284-291 - 1568 edition 
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