Tommaso di Mone Cassai

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Tommaso di Mone Cassai, better known as Masaccio, was an influential early Italian Renaissance painter whose innovative use of perspective and naturalism transformed Western art.

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instanceOf Early Renaissance painter
Italian painter
Renaissance artist
human
activeIn Florence
alsoKnownAs Masaccio
Tommaso Cassai
Tommaso Guidi
birthDate 1401-12-21
birthPlace Republic of Florence
San Giovanni Valdarno
birthYear 1401
causeOfDeath unknown
collaboratedWith Masolino da Panicale
countryOfCitizenship Republic of Florence
deathDate 1428-01-01
deathYear 1428
era Quattrocento
familyName Cassai
field painting
genre religious painting
givenName Tommaso
influenced Florentine Renaissance painters
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Raphael
influencedBy Brunelleschi
Donatello
Giotto
knownFor chiaroscuro modeling of form
innovative use of linear perspective
monumental, sculptural figures
naturalistic representation of figures
movement Early Renaissance
Italian Renaissance
nationality Italian
notableWork Brancacci Chapel frescoes
Expulsion from the Garden of Eden
Madonna and Child with Angels (Uffizi)
Pisa Altarpiece
San Giovenale Triptych
The Holy Trinity
linked to: Trinity

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placeOfDeath Rome
sibling Giovanni di Ser Giovanni (Lo Scheggia)
significantEvent helped establish systematic use of linear perspective in painting
style illusionistic perspective
naturalism
workLocation Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence
Santa Maria Novella, Florence

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Masaccio alsoKnownAs Tommaso di Mone Cassai