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 MASACCIO(Tommaso di Giovanni Cassai, San Giovanni Valdarno 1401-Rome1428)
"We have had a very great loss", declared Brunelleschi upon hearing that Masaccio had died in Rome at the age of twenty-six in mysterious circumstances, after having followed Masolino there. "Pure without ornament", perceptively noted Cristoforo Landino in 1481 in regard to the artist, reflecting Vitruvius' definition of the Doric column (sine ornatu, nudam specem). Still debated is the chronology of the rare surviving works by this revolutionary artist, called "Giotto reborn" for the plastic solidity of his figures, an ideal reflection of the great 14th century painter. Extraordinary also for having immediately assimilated the experimentation of Brunelleschi, Masaccio was the first to translate into painting the new rules on perspective, with a rigorous construction of space always dominated by the human presence.
(From "Italian Art" Edited by Gloria Fossi, Giunti).
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