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Masaccio

1401 - 1428

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Masaccio (UK: , US: ; Italian: [maˈzattʃo]; December 21, 1401 – summer 1428), born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, was a Florentine artist who is regarded as the first great Italian painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. According to Vasari, Masaccio was the best painter of his generation because of his skill at imitating nature, recreating lifelike figures and movements as well as a convincing sense of three-dimensionality. He employed nudes and foreshortenings in his figures. This had seldom been done before him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Masaccio is the 38th most popular painter (up from 39th in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from Italy (down from 88th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Italian Painter.

Masaccio is most famous for his frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel in Florence.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Masaccio ranks 38 out of 2,023. Before him are Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Amedeo Modigliani, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Jan van Eyck, and Edgar Degas. After him are Jacques-Louis David, Tintoretto, Gustave Courbet, Alphonse Mucha, Paolo Veronese, and Nicolas Poussin.

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Among people born in 1401, Masaccio ranks 1. After him are Catherine of Valois, Nicholas of Cusa, Francesco I Sforza, Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut, Emperor Shōkō, Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon, Charles I, Duke of Bourbon, Albert III, Duke of Bavaria, Stephen Zápolya, George Sphrantzes, and Badi' al-Zaman Mirza. Among people deceased in 1428, Masaccio ranks 1. After him are Andrei Rublev, Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, Emperor Shōkō, Sophia of Bavaria, Andronikos Palaiologos, Zawisza Czarny, Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Savoy, and Maxtla.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Masaccio ranks 124 out of 5,161. Before him are Vitruvius (-75), Girolamo Savonarola (1452), Pope Paul V (1552), Pope Clement VIII (1536), Pope Clement XI (1649), and Pope Clement XIII (1693). After him are Pope Clement XIV (1705), Lucrezia Borgia (1480), Pope Sixtus IV (1414), Giorgio Vasari (1511), Pope Innocent VIII (1432), and Marie de' Medici (1575).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Masaccio ranks 9. Before him are Caravaggio (1571), Sandro Botticelli (1445), Giotto (1267), Donatello (1386), Titian (1488), and Amedeo Modigliani (1884). After him are Tintoretto (1518), Paolo Veronese (1528), Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526), Andrea del Verrocchio (1435), Fra Angelico (1400), and Artemisia Gentileschi (1593).

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