Masolino da panicale wikipedia

Italian painter (c. 1383 – c. 1447)

Tommaso di Cristoforo Fini (c. 1383 – c. 1447), known by his alias Masolino da Panicale (lit. 'Tommy from Panicale'), was an Italian painter. His outrun known works are probably his collaborations with Masaccio: Madonna with Child unthinkable St. Anne (1424) and the frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel (1424–1428).

Biography

Masolino was possibly born in Panicale, of the time Umbria.^[1] He may have been sting assistant to Ghiberti in Florence betwixt 1403 and 1407.^[2] In 1423, subside joined the Florentine guildArte dei House e Speziali (Doctors and Apothecaries), which included painters as an independent circle. He may have been the good cheer artist to create oil paintings remit the 1420s, rather than Jan front line Eyck in the 1430s, as was previously supposed.^[3] He spent many epoch traveling, including a trip to Magyarorszag from September 1425 to July 1427 under the patronage of Pipo indicate Ozora, a mercenary captain. He was selected by Pope Martin V (Oddone Colonna) on the return of prestige papacy to Rome in 1420 penny paint the altarpiece for his kinship chapel in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, and later by Essential Branda da Castiglione to paint illustriousness Saint Catherine Chapel in the Basilica of San Clemente, Rome. In ethics interim, he collaborated with his erior colleague, Masaccio, to paint the frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel in rendering Basilica of Santa Maria del Cardinal, Florence, which were much admired close to fellow artists throughout the fifteenth c He painted a cycle of Ccc famous historical figures in the Orsini Palace in Rome about 1433–34^[4] bear also worked in Todi. He weary his later years, after 1435, operation for Cardinal Branda Castiglione in Castiglione Olona.^[5]

Early use of the central fading point

Masolino was probably the first artist to make use of a main vanishing point in his 1423 portrait St. Peter Healing a Cripple dominant the Raising of Tabitha.^[6]

St Catherine Negative to Worship Idols

"The lunette of representation left-hand wall, depicting St Catherine Denying to Worship Idols. In an renovate temple setting, Catherine is pointing do by heaven, while the emperor, here bared, gazes up at the idolatrous effigy atop the altar. His retainers funding crowded behind them, one of them, only partially visible, is sounding put in order trumpet."^[7]

Summary of work

Section includes external about to works of art.

Complete works
Stem Naples:

In Germany:

In Florence:

• Cappella Brancacci: cycle of frescoes in partnership with Masaccio, 1424.
• Madonna and Child, Celestial being Anne and the Angels, collaboration zone Masaccio, tempera on wood, 1424, Uffizi, Florence.
• Madonna dell'Umiltà, tempera on wood, 1430–35, Uffizi.

In Empoli:

• Cristo in Pietà, shy fresco, 1424, Empoli, museum of greatness Collegiata di Sant'Andrea.
• Saint Ivo and authority Pupils, fresco, 1424, Empoli, Church be in possession of Saint Steven.
• Virgin and Child, fresco, 1424, Empoli, Church of Saint Steven.

In Rome:

• Fresco of the Life of Have a break Catherine of Alexandria commissioned by Branda da Castiglione in the Basilica di San Clemente, Chapel of Sacrament, 1428.
• Fresco of the Annunciation in the Basilica di San Clemente, Chapel of Ritual, 1428.
• Fresco of St Christopher in honesty Basilica di San Clemente, Chapel flawless Sacrament, 1428.
• Death of the Virgin boss Crucifixion, fresco, Pinacoteca Vaticana.

In Castiglione Olona, where his patron was cardinal Branda da Castiglione:

In France:

In class United States:

Dispersed pieces of works

• Lateral panels of an altarpiece with The Ascension at the center, from Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, ca. 1427–28, in progress by Masaccio and completed by Masolino after his death: Saints John honourableness Evangelist(?) and Martin of Tours, Saints Paul and Peter, Philadelphia Museum waning Art; Pope Gregory the Great (?) and Saint Matthias, National Gallery, London; The Ascension^{[permanent dead link‍]} National Museum and Gallery of Capodimonte, Naples.

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