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(1401 - 1428) Italian, Florentine, Early Renaissance
The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden c. 1425
One of the Greatest paintings of All Time
According to art historian,
Bernhard Berenson,
"Masaccio, then, like
Giotto a century
earlier,—himself the Giotto
of an artistically more
propitious world—was, as an
artist, a great master of
the significant, and, as a
painter, endowed to the
highest degree with a sense
of tactile values, and with
a skill in rendering them.
In a career of but few years
he gave to Florentine
painting the direction it
pursued to the end. In many
ways he reminds us of the
young Bellini. Who knows?
Had he but lived as long, he
might have laid the
foundation for a painting
not less delightful and far
more profound than that of
Venice. As it was, his
frescoes at once became, and
for as long as there were
real artists among them
remained, the
training-school of
Florentine painters."
Key Descriptive Words and Phrases associated with the Renaissance Movement - rebirth, rediscovery of the classical world, publication of Della Pittura, a book about the laws of mathematical perspective for artists, sfumato, chiaroscuro, Savonarola, spiritually significant, axonometric drawing, illuminated manuscript, idealized biblical themes, scriptorium, illuminator, plague, Age of Discovery, curiosity about the natural world, realistic use of colours and light, Bonfire of the Vanities, Old Testament stories, ethereal and foggy backgrounds, Gospel parables, romanticized landscapes, Christian symbolism. 1400, philosophy, ancient traditions, new scientific knowledge, Humanist philosophy, Classical texts, advanced mathematics, Medici Bank, Florence, Cosimo de' Medici, oil paint, classicising tendencies
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