Masaccio

American

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

noun

Tommaso Guidi, 1401–28?, Italian painter.

Masaccio British

/ 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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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

Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, Masaccio and Leon Battista Alberti were establishing the rules of perspective.

From Washington Post • May 12, 2022

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

From Reuters • Apr. 5, 2022

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

From Time • Mar. 26, 2014

We know that Brunelleschi discussed perspective with Masaccio, and that Alberti was soon to write a textbook on geometrical perspective.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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