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St Peter Healing the Sick with His Shadow, by Masaccio. Lower centre wall, left side, by Masaccio. The episode depicts Acts 5:12–16. The picture's attribution to Masaccio is based in on the perspective structure used to create the street setting and the craggy naturalism of the physiognomies of the old man and the cripple.
The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (Italian: Cacciata dei progenitori dall'Eden) is a fresco by the Italian Early Renaissance artist Masaccio. 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.
Masolino eventually left, either for Hungary in 1425 or for Rome in 1427, leaving the completion of the chapel to Masaccio. In 1427 or 28, before the chapel was completed, Masaccio joined Masolino in Rome. Only in the 1480s were the frescos in the chapel finished, by Filippino Lippi. [5] The Tribute Money, though, is considered Masaccio's work ...
Masaccio did not complete the decoration of the chapel. In 1428 he left for Rome, and was reported dead soon afterwards. [1] What follows is an incomplete list of Masaccio's main paintings in chronological sequence. [2] The arrangement is ordered by year and title, with brief comments and showing the artistic development of the artist.
The fresco is located along the middle of the basilica's left aisle. Although the configuration of this space has changed since the artwork was created, there are clear indications that the fresco was aligned very precisely in relationship with the sight-lines and perspective arrangement of the room at the time; particularly a former entrance-way facing the painting; in order to enhance the ...
Masaccio (UK: / m æ ˈ s æ tʃ i oʊ /, US: / m ə ˈ s ɑː tʃ i oʊ, m ə ˈ z ɑː tʃ (i) oʊ /; [1] [2] [3] 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 the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance.
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The painting of the Brancacci Chapel was left incomplete when Masaccio died at 26 in 1428. The Tribute Money was completed by Masolino while the remainder of the work in the chapel was finished by Filippino Lippi in the 1480s. Masaccio's work became a source of inspiration to many later painters, including Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. [13]