Masaccio - Finestre sull'Arte

When Donatello and Masaccio agreed on the Renaissance revolution in Pisa.

The Museo Nazionale di San Matteo in Pisa holds a very special record: it is the only museum in the world where, in the same building, it is possible to see a work by Donatello and a work by Masaccio, that is, by the father of Renaissance sculpture a...
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A new painting: Masaccio's Trinity

On the wall of the third arch of the left aisle of the Dominican basilica of Santa Maria Novella in Florence is a fresco that is considered the programmatic manifesto of the new Renaissance painting. It is the Trinity, the last work created by Masacc...
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Masaccio in Milan, here's how he dialogues with the Diocesan Museum's gold funds. Nadia Righi speaks

Until May 7, 2023, the Crucifixion by Masaccio (San Giovanni Valdarno, 1401 - Rome, 1428) from the Capodimonte Museum in Naples is on its way to Milan, to the Museo Diocesano "Carlo Maria Martini ." A real exhibition itinerary has been designed aroun...
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Milan, Masaccio's Crucifixion arrives in transfer from Capodimonte

From Feb. 22 to May 7, 2023, the Museo Diocesano "Carlo Maria Martini" in Milan will host one of the most important masterpieces by Masaccio (San Giovanni Valdarno, 1401 - Rome, 1428), an artist who revolutionized the history of 15th-century Italian ...
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In San Giovanni Valdarno, Masaccio and Beato Angelico compared in an exhibition of the Uffizi Diffusi

After the important exhibition in Reggello for the six hundredth anniversary of the Triptych of St. Juvenal, another review delves into the figure of Masaccio (San Giovanni Valdarno, 1401 - Rome, 1428), in the town that gave him birth, Castel San Gio...
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This is where the Renaissance began. The exhibition for the 600th anniversary of Masaccio's Triptych of San Giovenale

The birth certificate of Renaissance painting is not to be sought, as one might imagine, within the walls of Florence, under Giotto's bell tower, in the shadow of Brunelleschi's dome. As far as we know, Florence was not the first recipient of...
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Florence, scaffolding tours kick off at Brancacci Chapel to see frescoes up close

As previously announced, the restoration of the Brancacci Chapel has begun and, thanks to the presence of scaffolding necessary for the diagnostic and restoration work, masterpieces by Masaccio, Masolino da Panicale and Filippino Lippi can be admired...
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Florence, scaffolding at Brancacci Chapel to admire frescoes up close for the first time

The restoration of the Brancacci Chapel, which is part of the Florentine Civic Museums, will start soon, but it will not close, and the public will have an extraordinary opportunity to admire Masaccio and Masolino 's masterpieces up close by climbing...
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