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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.
Biography
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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
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Filippino Lippi was among the most gifted and accomplished Florentine painters and draftsmen of the second half of the fifteenth century. He was born around 1457, the product of a famous and illicit relationship between the painter Fra Filippo Lippi and the young nun Lucrezia Buti. Trained first by his father, he entered the workshop of Sandro Botticelli in 1472, three years after his father’s death. He went out on his own a few years later, having developed a manner that was deeply imbued with the influence of his two great masters.
From the first, Filippino’s style as a painter and draftsman was marked by animated form and line, as well as a rather warm colorism. These features are evident in relatively early works such as the Tobias and the Angel (National Gallery, Washington, D.C.) and the Adoration of the Kings (National Gallery, London), which also contain a vivid and naturalistic rendering of landscape.
Filippino’s first major project was the completion of the fresco cy
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Masolino da Panicale | Frescoes in the Cappella Brancacci of Santa Maria della Carmine in Florence |
The frescoes in the famous Brancacci Chapel in Florence, begun by Renaissance masters Masaccio and Masolino and completed by Filippino Lippi in 1487, served as a training ground and inspiration to a generation of painters from Raphael to Michelangelo. Partially obscured bygd smoke from votive lamps, air pollution, varnish and the effects of a 1771 fire, the frescoes, including the Life of Saint Peter cycle, were restored in 1981-88. |