Masaccio

American  

[mah-saht-chaw, muh-sah-chee-oh] / mɑˈsɑt tʃɔ, məˈsɑ tʃiˌoʊ /

noun

1. Tommaso Guidi, 1401–28?, Italian painter.

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Masaccio British  

/ maˈzattʃo /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

The use of linear perspective had been a “secret” known to the ancient Greeks and Romans but lost and then “rediscovered” by the Florentine architect Filippo Brunelleschi, whose drawings inspired Masaccio.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

It reproduces a shivering man depicted in a fresco, "Baptism of the Neophytes", by Masaccio.

From Reuters • Apr. 5, 2022

Around 1425, the Florentine artist Masaccio painted the first major works in one-point perspective.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2022

Carmack did for computer games what Masaccio did for painting: he turned a plane into a space.

From Time • Mar. 26, 2014

And we know that this is precisely what Masaccio did: we can see the lines he scored in the plaster on which he painted.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton