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Masaccio: Innovator of Perspec
Title: Masaccio: Innovator of Perspec
Category: Arts & Humanities
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Masaccio: Innovator of Perspec
Masaccio: Innovator of Perspective and Illusion
Considered the greatest Florentine painter of the early 1400s, Masaccio is one of the most important figures of Western Art. Tommaso di ser Giovanni Cassai di Simon Guidi was born in 1401 and nicknamed Masaccio Careless Tom because of his attitude. He was apathetic to things like personal appearance and worldly materials, and was thus careless with his possessions. As a child, he concentrated more on his art instead of …showed first 75 words of 643 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 643 total…perspective, and this originality will place him in the same stratum as Giotto and Michelangelo.
Frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence, including -Expulsion from Eden- and -The Tribute Money-
A closer look at -The Tribute Money- which tells the story of Peter’s confrontation with the Roman tax collectors. Peter is on the far left looking for money and on the far right paying. Christ is in the center.
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