The lectures will be focusing on the art of the early 15th century Florentine artist, Tommaso Masaccio. The Signal Arts Centre is due to hold Art History Lectures on Tuesday April 20, which will ...

Fra Angelico and the prodigy Masaccio are considered the major artists of their time–the second quarter of the fifteenth century–but their contributions were entirely distinct from each other.

Art selection and commentary by Heidi J. Hornik, who teaches in the art department at Baylor University, ... Masaccio is following a well-known artistic convention of associating the “throne of grace” ...

Six centuries ago, in a side chapel of an important church in Florence, Italy, a wealthy local silk merchant commissioned the artist Masaccio (1401-1427) to paint a fresco of Adam and Eve being ...

Art can often mark important shifts in the way a society views the world. Consider literature's Sturm und Drang ("Storm and Stress") movement (1767-1786), whose turbulent emotions signaled a swing ...

Thought to have been executed in 1596, A nude man (after Masaccio) and two figures behind him has been dubbed the Michelangelo’s “first nude.” The central figure is a copy of the shivering ...

Unit information: Cimabue to Masaccio: Art and Architecture in Tuscany 1250-1430 in 2010/11. Please note: ... Canonical works by major artists from Cimabue, Duccio and Giotto to Brunelleschi, Ghiberti ...