The Renaissance in painting was born in a Florentine chapel, the Brancacci, and culminated in a Roman one, the Sistine. In the frescoes of the first, located in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine, ...

Three major projects restored thanks to support from Friends of Florence Foundation are now on public view: Donatello's monumental bronze sculpture Judith and Holofernes (1457-1464) in the Palazzo ...

The paintings on the walls of the Brancacci Chapel in Florence show Masaccio (1401-28) at his artistic and spiritual best—not least in the way he links Adam and Eve with Christ. Driven from the Garden ...

But you have seen nothing, really, until you’ve been up close and personal with the Masaccio frescoes at Florence’s Santa Maria del Carmine, that simple church with its rough stone and brick facade on ...