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Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Mone (Masaccio)

Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Mone (Masaccio).

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Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Mone (Masaccio)

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  1. Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Mone (Masaccio)

  2. Masaccio was born of parents Giovanni di Mone Cassai and Jacopa di Martinozzo in Castel San Giovanni di Altura, the Tuscan province of Arezzo. His father was a notary and his mother the daughter of an innkeeper. His father died in 1406, when Tommaso was only five. In that year another brother was born, called Giovanni after his dead father. He also was to become a painter, with the nickname of "Scheggia". The mother was remarried to an elderly apothecary, Tedesco, who guaranteed Masaccio and his family a comfortable childhood. The family moved to Florence when Tedesco died in August 1417. Little is known about Tommaso until he joined one of the seven main craft's guilds in Florence on January 7, 1422, signing as "Masus S. Johannis Simonis pictor populi S. Nicholae de Florentia". In the new city Tommaso received his nickname, meaning "Clumsy Thomas" for the little care he gave to wordly affairs and to personal appearance: otherwise he was considered a good-natured person.

  3. In Florence, Masaccio studied the works of Giotto and became friends with Alberti, Brunelleschi and Donatello. Masaccio travelled to Rome with Masolino and from that point he was freed from all Gothic and Byzantine influence. The of influences from ancient Roman and Greek art are present in some of Masaccio's works and probably originated from this trip to Rome. They should also have been present in a lost Sagra, (today known through some drawings, including one by Michelangelo), a fresco commissioned for the consecration ceremony of the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence (April 19, 1422). It was destroyed when the church's cloister was rebuilt at the end of the 16th century. Despite his brief career, he had a profound influence on other artists. He was one of the first to use scientific PERSPECTIVE in his painting.

  4. Masaccio’s Rendering of the Tribute Money was his first fresco at the Brancacci Chapel. This was painted in 1425. The colors are of the clothing are bright and stand out against the pale colors of the mountains and sea. The painting shows the story of Peter’s confrontation with the tax collectors as told in the Bible. This painting is the first of a set of seven. It is considered the first painting to comfortably integrate people, landscape, and architecture into one unit.

  5. The Distribution of the Goods of the Community and the Death of Ananias is described in The Acts of Apostles (5:1-10). This painting again uses bright color on the people to offset the gray tone of the surrounding landscape. The content of the painting shows Ananias and Sapphira after the have lied to the apostles and died.

  6. Expulsion from Paradise, painted in 1427 shows Adam and Eve being shunned from the Garden of Eden. The colors on the painting are almost identical except for that of the angel. The angel is a very important image of the painting and is shown in bright red.

  7. Madonna and Child. Which was After 1426. It is painted with Tempera on Panel. It shows Mother Mary with baby Jesus. The background is gold which could symbolize the greatness and power of the two in the portrait.

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