biography
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Masolino (da Panicale)
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originally Tommaso di Cristoforo Fini
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pronunciation:
[masohleenoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1383–c.1447)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Panicale, Romagna. He matriculated in the Florentine Guild in 1423. His early style, close to the Gothic manner of Lorenzo Monaco, yielded briefly to the influence of the more realistic art of Masaccio, with whom he worked on the frescoes of the Life of St Peter in the Brancacci Chapel of the Church of S Maria del Carmine in Florence. His greatest work is the fresco cycle in the Baptistery and Collegiata of Castiglione d'Olona near Como (1430s), which were discovered only in 1843. |
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