In Italy, one of the first centennials to occur in the twenty-first century is that marking the birth of Masaccio on 21st December 1401 at San Giovanni Valdarno (Jean van Eyck was already ten years ...
Masaccio's "Holy Trinity," in the Florentine church of Santa Maria Novella, is one of the most intellectually complex and deeply moving pictures ever painted, remarkable not only for its precocious ...
Masaccio, the first great painter of the Italian Renaissance, was a pioneer. He was the first major artist to use scientific perspective in painting, his style was far more naturalistic than that of ...
Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? Fra Angelico and the prodigy Masaccio are considered the major artists of ...
Art can often mark important shifts in the way a society views the world. Consider literature's Sturm und Drang ("Storm and Stress") movement (1767-1786), whose turbulent emotions signaled a swing ...
New data from the restored 'Trinity' in Florence. Like cars and the human body, pictures need regular maintenance. This is particularly true of wall paintings, even when executed in the robust medium ...