1. Masaccio- Italian Painter By: Catherine Scibetta

2. About Him.. Masaccio was originally named Tommaso Cassai. The name Masaccio means 'big Tommaso' In 1422 he joined the Florence painters guild. Along with Brunelleschi and Donatello, he was a founder of the Renaissance. Most of his paintings were altarpieces or church frescoes.

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4. Famous Art He painted many famous frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel in Florence, Italy. One of the frescoes was the Expulsion From The Garden of Eden. A famous painting is Virgin and Child with Saint Anne which they think was worked on with Masolino another artist in this era. Another famous fresco is The Holy Trinity in the Santa Maria Novella church in Florence.

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6. Career Masaccio’s frescoes are the earliest monuments of Humanism. Although his career was short he had a great influence on other artists. Masaccio was one of the first artists to use scientific perspective in his paintings. All of his works were religious in some way.

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8. Facts Masaccio is one of the first to use perspective to suggest depth in a flat surface. Sadly most of his masterpieces were destroyed. In his paintings he moved away from the Gothic ideas of his time into more of a realism view. Only four frescoes still stand today.

9. St. Peter Healing with his Shadow