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The Brancacci Chapel (in Italian, "Cappella dei Brancacci") is a chapel in the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence, central Italy. It is sometimes called the "Sistine Chapel of the early Renaissance" [1] for its painting cycle, among the most famous and influential of the period. Construction of the chapel was commissioned by Felice ...
The Corsini Chapel. The vault of the nave by Domenico Stagi. Santa Maria del Carmine is a church of the Carmelite Order, in the Oltrarno district of Florence, in Tuscany, Italy. It is famous as the location of the Brancacci Chapel housing outstanding Renaissance frescoes by Masaccio and Masolino da Panicale, later finished by Filippino Lippi.
The Brancacci Chapel, in the basilica of Santa Maria del Carmine, was founded around 1366/7 by Pietro Brancacci. [3] The chapel passed to Pietro's nephew, Felice Brancacci, who some time between 1423 and 1425 commissioned the painter Masolino to decorate the walls with a series of frescoes from the life of Saint Peter.
The fresco is a single scene from the cycle painted around 1425 by Masaccio, Masolino and others on the walls of the Brancacci Chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence. It depicts the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden , from the biblical Book of Genesis chapter 3, albeit with a few differences from the ...
(Fresco: 230 cm × 598 cm) Brancacci Chapel — Masaccio returned in 1427 to work again in Santa Maria del Carmine, Pisa, beginning the Raising of the Son of Teophilus, but apparently left it unfinished, though it has also been suggested that the painting was severely damaged later in the century because it contained portraits of the Brancacci ...
The Tribute Money, fresco in the Brancacci Chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence. In 1424, the "duo preciso e noto" ("well and known duo") of Masaccio and Masolino was commissioned by the powerful and wealthy Felice Brancacci to execute a cycle of frescoes for the Brancacci Chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence. With ...
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Felice di Michele Brancacci (born 1382 - fl. 15th century) was a Florentine silk merchant, best known for commissioning the decoration of the Brancacci Chapel. The nephew and heir of Piero di Piuvichese Brancacci , he was involved in Mediterranean silk trade, and also acted as a diplomat.