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Masaccio & Fabriano

Masaccio & Fabriano. By Tristan & Shechenah. Masaccio (1401-1428). Real name: Tommaso di ser Giovanni de Simone Guidi Cassai Masaccio = “Big Tommaso ” Italian painter in the early Renaissance Born in Castel San Giovanni de Valdarno The majority of his work has been destroyed

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Masaccio & Fabriano

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  1. Masaccio & Fabriano By Tristan & Shechenah

  2. Masaccio (1401-1428) • Real name: Tommaso di ser Giovanni de Simone GuidiCassai • Masaccio = “Big Tommaso” • Italian painter in the early Renaissance • Born in Castel San Giovanni de Valdarno • The majority of his work has been destroyed • Most likely died in poverty in Rome, at the age of 27

  3. Masaccio’s Style • One of the first to use perspective to suggest depth in a flat surface • Had an eye for the use of light, expressing moods, and was a master at forming groups • According to Vasari, he was the best painter of his generation because of his skill at creating lifelike figures and movements • Brief career • Moved away from the international gothic style and elaborate ornamentation of artists like Fabrianoand focused more on a naturalistic mode that used perspective and chiaroscuro

  4. Brancacci Chapel of the Santa Maria del Carmine

  5. The Tribute Money

  6. More Works

  7. Gentile da Fabriano (1370-1427)

  8. Gentile da Fabriano • Mainly worked in central Italy (mostly in Tuscany). He was trained in Lombard school, hence why he practiced Lombard paintings. • In 1409, Gentile was commissioned to decorate the Doges' Palace in Venice with historical frescoes, but were finished by II Pisanello.

  9. Gentile da Fabriano • He worked for Pandolfo III Malatesta in Brescia. His final dose of frescoes begun in Rome in the Church of St. John Lateran.

  10. It was on August 6, 1420 in Florence with he was painting his famous altarpiece depicting the Adoration of the Magi (1432)

  11. More Works • Gentile produced a number of Madonnas, For example the QuaratesiPolyptych(1425), which show the Mother and Child sitting on the ground in a garden.

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