Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone

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Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, better known as Masaccio, was an influential early Italian Renaissance painter renowned for his pioneering use of perspective and naturalism.

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instanceOf Early Renaissance artist
Italian painter
Renaissance painter
human
activeYearsEnd 1428
activeYearsStart c. 1422
alsoKnownAs Masaccio
countryOfCitizenship Republic of Florence
dateOfBirth 1401-12-21
dateOfDeath 1428
employer Felice Brancacci
ethnicGroup Italian
fieldOfWork painting
genre fresco
religious painting
givenName Tommaso
influenced Filippo Lippi
Florentine Renaissance painters
linked to: Florentine school

Michelangelo
Piero della Francesca
influencedBy Brunelleschi
Donatello
Giotto
movement Early Renaissance
Italian Renaissance
nativeLanguage Italian
notableFor innovative use of light and shadow (chiaroscuro)
monumental, sculptural treatment of the human body
naturalistic representation of figures
pioneering use of linear perspective in painting
notableWork Adoration of the Magi (lost or fragmentary works associated)
Baptism of the Neophytes
Brancacci Chapel frescoes
Crucifixion (Pisa Polyptych)
Distribution of Alms and Death of Ananias
Expulsion from the Garden of Eden
Madonna and Child with Angels (Uffizi)
Raising of the Son of Theophilus
San Giovenale Triptych
St. Peter Healing the Sick with His Shadow
The Holy Trinity (Santa Maria Novella)
The Tribute Money
placeOfBirth Republic of Florence
San Giovanni Valdarno
placeOfDeath Rome
religion Catholicism
linked to: Roman Catholicism
sexOrGender male
workLocation Florence
Rome

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Masaccio birthName Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone