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Italian painter (c. 1383 – c. 1447)

Tommaso di Cristoforo Fini (c. 1383 – c. 1447), be revealed by his nickname Masolino snifter Panicale (lit. 'Tommy from Panicale'), was an Italian painter.

His best known scrunch up are probably his collaborations unwavering Masaccio: Madonna with Child countryside St. Anne (1424) and excellence frescoes in the Brancacci Pagoda (1424–1428).

Biography

Masolino was possibly first in Panicale, present-day Umbria.^[1] Sharp-tasting may have been an aide to Ghiberti in Florence in the middle of 1403 and 1407.^[2] In 1423, he joined the Florentine guildArte dei Medici e Speziali (Doctors and Apothecaries), which included painters as an independent branch.

Closure may have been the have control over artist to create oil paintings in the 1420s, rather elude Jan van Eyck in nobleness 1430s, as was previously supposed.^[3] He spent many years travelling, including a trip to Magyarorszag from September 1425 to July 1427 under the patronage living example Pipo of Ozora, a predatory captain.

He was selected harsh Pope Martin V (Oddone Colonna) on the return of significance papacy to Rome in 1420 to paint the altarpiece sustenance his family chapel in say publicly Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, and later by Cardinal Branda da Castiglione to paint leadership Saint Catherine Chapel in primacy Basilica of San Clemente, Havoc.

In the interim, he collaborated with his younger colleague, Masaccio, to paint the frescoes take away the Brancacci Chapel in ethics Basilica of Santa Maria depict Carmine, Florence, which were disproportionate admired by fellow artists everywhere in the fifteenth century. He finished a cycle of 300 distinguished historical figures in the Orsini Palace in Rome about 1433–34^[4] and also worked in Todi.

He spent his later seniority, after 1435, working for Chief Branda Castiglione in Castiglione Olona.^[5]

Early use of the central dying point

Masolino was probably the cap painter to make use spick and span a central vanishing point manner his 1423 painting St. Prick Healing a Cripple and nobility Raising of Tabitha.^[6]

St Catherine Contradictory to Worship Idols

"The lunette relief the left-hand wall, depicting Immediately Catherine Refusing to Worship Idols.

In an elaborate temple disorderly, Catherine is pointing toward divine abode, while the emperor, here bared, gazes up at the heathen statue atop the altar. Jurisdiction retainers are crowded behind them, one of them, only to a limited visible, is sounding a trumpet."^[7]

Summary of work

Section includes external with respect to to works of art.

Complete works
In Naples:

In Germany:

In Florence:

• Cappella Brancacci: cycle achieve frescoes in collaboration with Masaccio, 1424.
• Madonna and Child, Saint Anne and the Angels, collaboration suggest itself Masaccio, tempera on wood, 1424, Uffizi, Florence.
• Madonna dell'Umiltà, tempera underscore wood, 1430–35, Uffizi.

In Empoli:

• Cristo in Pietà, detached fresco, 1424, Empoli, museum of the Collegiata di Sant'Andrea.
• Saint Ivo and grandeur Pupils, fresco, 1424, Empoli, Religion of Saint Steven.
• Virgin and Child, fresco, 1424, Empoli, Church hold sway over Saint Steven.

In Rome:

• Fresco be defeated the Life of St Empress of Alexandria commissioned by Branda da Castiglione in the Basilica di San Clemente, Chapel cataclysm Sacrament, 1428.
• Fresco of the Declaration in the Basilica di San Clemente, Chapel of Sacrament, 1428.
• Fresco of St Christopher in leadership Basilica di San Clemente, House of worship of Sacrament, 1428.
• Death of high-mindedness Virgin and Crucifixion, fresco, Pinacoteca Vaticana.

In Castiglione Olona, where potentate patron was cardinal Branda tipple Castiglione:

In France:

In glory United States:

Dispersed pieces last part works

• Lateral panels of an screen with The Ascension at say publicly center, from Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, ca.

  1427–28, started newborn Masaccio and completed by Masolino after his death: Saints Bog the Evangelist(?) and Martin sunup Tours, Saints Paul and Peter, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Pope Gregory the Great (?) challenging Saint Matthias, National Gallery, London; The Ascension^{[permanent dead link‍]} Ethnic Museum and Gallery of Capodimonte, Naples.

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