The Life of Masaccio (Art History)

ART HISTORY RESEACH ESSAY MASACCIO ‘…It was Masaccio, the youngest of all painters who were young before during and after him who, in his few youthful years, worked the miracle of awakening in painting, breathing life into it at last real and earthy, an urgency it had never had before.” Libero de Liberi. Masaccio, originally named Tommaso Giovanni di Mone, was born in San Giovanni Valdarno, near Florence on December 21,1401 and died in Rome in 1428. …showed first 75 words of 1008 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1008 total…Florentine art took and particularly on the work of Michelangelo. Masaccio was one of the most influential painters to date, his style was revolutionary. He also played a fundamental role in the history of art and helped lay the foundations that have established art today. As he said himself “I painted, and my picture was like life; I gave my figures movement, passion, soul: They breathed. Thus, all others Buonarotti taught; he learnt from me.”