biography
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Masaccio
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originally Tommaso de Giovanni di Simone Guidi
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pronunciation:
[masachio]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1401–28)
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| biography:
| Painter and pioneer of the Renaissance, born in Castel San Giovanni di Altura, Duchy of Milan. In his short life he brought about a revolution in the dramatic and realistic representation of biblical events. This was recognized by his contemporaries, and had a great influence on Michelangelo and through him on the entire 16th-c. His greatest work is the fresco cycle in the Brancacci Chapel of the Church of S Maria del Carmine in Florence (1424–7). |
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