Masaccio, nickname of Tommaso di ser Giovanni di Mone Cassai (Castel San Giovanni in Altura, 1401 - Rome, 1428).
He was an Italian painter.
He was one of the initiators of the Renaissance in Florence, renewing the painting according to a new rigorous vision, which rejected the decorative excesses and the artificiality of the then dominant style, the international Gothic.
Starting from Giotto's volumetric synthesis, reinterpreted through Brunelleschi's perspective construction and the plastic strength of Donatell's statuary, he inserted his "very lively figures with beautiful readiness and the similitude of truth" (cit. Vasari) in credible architecture and landscapes, modeling them through the use of chiaroscuro.
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