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 …

Dec 17, 2025 · Masaccio was an important Florentine painter of the Early Renaissance whose frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel, Florence, remained influential throughout the Renaissance. …

Masaccio was the first great painter of the Quattrocento period of the Renaissance recreating lifelike figures with a convincing sense of three-dimensionality.

Masaccio (Italian: [maˈzattʃo]; 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 …

Masaccio is recognised as one of the founders of the Florentine school of art. His monumental figures are sculpted by light; this approach was first employed by the Florentine Giotto a …

Masaccio was the first painter in the Renaissance to incorporate Brunelleschi’s discovery, linear perspective, in his art. He did this in his fresco, the Holy Trinity, in Santa Maria Novella, in …

"Appunti sugli inizi di Masaccio e sulla pittura fiorentina del suo tempo." In Masaccio e le origini del Rinascimento. Exh. cat. Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno. Milan, 2002.