Masaccio, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Masaccio

Italian painter (1401-1428)

Date of Birth: 21-Dec-1401

Place of Birth: San Giovanni Valdarno, Tuscany, Italy

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1428

Profession: painter

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Masaccio

  • Masaccio (UK: , US: , Italian: [ma'zatt?o]; December 21, 1401 – summer 1428), born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, was a Florentine artist who is regarded as the first great Italian painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance.
  • According to Vasari, Masaccio was the best painter of his generation because of his skill at imitating nature, recreating lifelike figures and movements as well as a convincing sense of three-dimensionality.
  • He employed nudes and foreshortenings in his figures.
  • This had seldom been done before him.The name Masaccio is a humorous version of Maso (short for Tommaso), meaning "clumsy" or "messy" Tom.
  • The name may have been created to distinguish him from his principal collaborator, also called Maso, who came to be known as Masolino ("little/delicate Tom"). Despite his brief career, he had a profound influence on other artists and is considered to have started the Early Italian Renaissance in painting with his works in the mid- and late-1420s.
  • He was one of the first to use linear perspective in his painting, employing techniques such as vanishing point in art for the first time.
  • He moved away from the International Gothic style and elaborate ornamentation of artists like Gentile da Fabriano to a more naturalistic mode that employed perspective and chiaroscuro for greater realism. Masaccio died at the age of twenty-six and little is known about the exact circumstances of his death.
  • Upon hearing of Masaccio’s death, Filippo Brunelleschi said: "We have suffered a great loss."

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