The Life of Masaccio (Art History)
'...It was Masaccio, the youngest of all painters who were young before during and after him who, in his few youthful years, worked the miracle of awakening in painting, breathing life into it at last real and earthy, an urgency it had never had before." Libero de Liberi. Masaccio, originally named Tommaso Giovanni di Mone, was born in San Giovanni Valdarno, near Florence on December 21,1401 and died in Rome in 1428. He was the first great painter of the Italian Renaissance, whose innovations in the use of scientific perspective introduced the modern style in painting. Masaccio joined the Florentine painters' guild in 1422.His remarkably individual style was unique and owed little to other painters, although Giotto influenced him along with the stronger influences of the architect Brunelleschi, and the sculptor Donatello, who were both his contemporaries in Florence. From Brunelleschi Masaccio acquired the knowledge of mathematical proportion that was necessary to his revival of the principals of scientific perspective which is evident in one of his most acclaimed frescoes The Trinity which is housed in the Santa Maria Novella in Florence. Masaccio painted The Trinity or The Holy Tr
Masaccio's work had a strong influence on the path that later Florentine art took and particularly on the work of Michelangelo. Masaccio had also adopted Donatello's low point of view and atmospheric distance, along with Gentile's [One of the leading painters of the International Gothic style of the early fifteenth century], complexity of construction and produced a landscape of splendour that was unknown before his time. Masaccio managed to dissolve the impenetrable wall that other artists/painters had painted and was able to produce a background that disappeared into the distance, using accurate perspective.
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