Masaccio

[ mah-saht-chaw; English muh-sah-chee-oh ]

/ mɑˈsɑt tʃɔ; English məˈsɑ tʃiˌoʊ /

noun

Tommaso Guidi, 1401–28?, Italian painter.

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Examples from the Web for masaccio

Would they feel happy if they saw a Masaccio, a Ghirlandajo, a Carpaccio?
The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton|Mrs. Russell Barrington
Masaccio painted his portrait in the Carmine, but it is lost.
Donatello|David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford
Masaccio, however, as we saw, was taken away by death before he could give any one of his thoughts complete expression.
Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V)|John Ruskin
The picture was for a long time attributed to Masaccio's master, Masolino.
Filippo Lippi|Paul G. Konody

Masaccio, however, seems the first to have gone into it thoroughly and to have grasped nature as a whole.
A Text-Book of the History of Painting|John C. Van Dyke

British Dictionary definitions for masaccio

Masaccio

/ (Italian maˈzattʃo) /

noun

original name Tommaso Guidi. 1401–28, Florentine painter. He was the first to apply to painting the laws of perspective discovered by Brunelleschi. His chief work is the frescoes in the Brancacci chapel in the church of Sta. Maria del Carmine, Florence

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