Example sentences for: masaccio

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  • Compare Masolino’s sweet and harmonious Adam and Eve in his Original Sin (chapel entrance, upper right) with Masaccio’s agonizing figures in the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, opposite, to appreciate one of the early Renaissance’s most dramatic statements.

  • The church itself is an unprepossessing reconstruction after a devastating fire of 1771, but the Brancacci Chapel with the great Masaccio frescoes miraculously survived intact.

  • Florence’s greatest artists, Michelangelo at their head, came to gaze and marvel, sketching Masaccio’s trail-blazing use of light and visual depth as instruments of emotional impact, particularly striking in the broad sweep of his St. Peter Paying the Tribute Money.

  • Local master artist Tintoretto (1518–1594) won a competition to create for the hall some 50 paintings (the largest collection of his work anywhere) over a period of 23 years, a series comparable in grandeur to Giotto’s frescoes in Padua’s Scrovegni Chapel or Florence’s Brancacci chapel by Masaccio.

  • The church is rich in artistic treasures, but its most prized, indeed one of the city’s greatest paintings for its early handling of perspective and depth, is the Masaccio Trinity (from around 1427; left aisle, third bay).


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