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Throughout the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th, scholars attributed this fresco to Masaccio, until 1929 when it was re-attributed to Masolino..

Masolino da Panicale

Italian painter (c.

1383 – c. 1447)

Tommaso di Cristoforo Fini (c. 1383 – c. 1447), known by his nickname Masolino da Panicale (lit. 'Tommy from Panicale'), was an Italian painter.

Fresco by Masolino da Panicale in the Baptistery of Castiglione, detail of the Annunciation.

The frescoes were designed by Masolino da Panicale, who began painting them with his pupil Masaccio.

Throughout the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th, scholars attributed this fresco to Masaccio, until 1929 when it was re-attributed to Masolino.

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The 12 frescoes were painted in two rows, six above and six below, that run around three walls of the chapel.

His best known works are probably his collaborations with Masaccio: Madonna with Child and St. Anne (1424) and the frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel (1424–1428).

Biography

Masolino was possibly born in Panicale, present-day Umbria.^[1] He may have been an assistant to Ghiberti in Florence between 1403 and 1407.^[2] In 1423, he joined the Florentine guildArte dei Medici e Speziali (Doctors and Apothecaries), which included painters as an independent branch.

He may have been the first artist to create oil paintings in the 1420s, rather than Jan van Eyck in the 1430s, as was previously supposed.^[3] He spent many years traveling, including a trip to Hungary from September 1425 to July 1427 under the patronage of Pipo of O