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Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio was the first great painter of the Italian Renaissance, whose innovations in the use of scientific perspective inaugurated the modern era in painting. The fresco series for the Brancacci Chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence 1427, illustrates another of his great innovations, the use of light to define the human body and its draperies. In these frescoes, rather than bathing his scenes in flat uniform light, he painted them as if they were illuminated from a single source of light the actual chapel window, thus creating a play of light and shadow that gave them a natural, realistic quality unknown in the art of his day. Of these six fresco scenes, Tribute Money and the Expulsion from Paradise are considered his masterpieces.

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter

Masaccio 1401-1428 | Italian renaissance painter