Masolino - Finestre sull'Arte

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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Masaccio and Masolino's St. Anna Metterza: two eras that meet in one table

It is difficult to find an art history textbook that does not reproduce the Sant'Anna Metterza, the Uffizi panel painting created, around 1424, by Masaccio together with Masolino da Panicale. And rare, too, are the works that can rival the ...
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Masolino's Christ in Pity, the 15th-century masterpiece that inspired Bill Viola

"Neo-Giottesque locutions": with this expression, the great art historian Roberto Longhi referred to the figures that appear in the very famous Christ in Pieta by Masolino da Panicale (real name Tommaso di Cristoforo Fini, Panicale, 1383 - Floren...
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