Masaccio

Brancacci Chapel — painting's second founder

Dead at 27, he revolutionized painting. The Brancacci Chapel frescoes — with their monumental figures, consistent light source, and atmospheric perspective — are the moment painting crossed from medieval to Renaissance. Every great Florentine painter from Fra Angelico to Michelangelo studied them.

Key works

• Brancacci Chapel frescoes~1425— The Tribute Money — painting reborn
  Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence
• Holy Trinity~1427— First use of mathematical perspective in painting
  Santa Maria Novella, Florence

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