Artists
Da Panicale Masolino
- Country:
- Italy
- Birth year:
- 1383
- Death year:
- 1440
Masolino da Panicale (1383 Panicale di Valdarno - 1440 Florence), born Timmaso di Cristofano Fini, is documented as being an assistant to the sculptor Lerenzo Ghiberti in Florence between 1403-1407. It was in Florence in 1423 that Masolino entered the guild of the Medici e Speziali, the guild to which painters also belonged. A year later he painted the frescoes in San Stefano in Empoli, and also began working with Masaccio. In 1425 the two artists began painting the Brancacci Chapel of the Carmelites in Florence, but Masolino interrupted the work for two years (1425-1427) in answer to a call to serve as court painter in Budapest. Upon his return to Italy he continued his work in the Brancacci chapel and traveled to Rome with Masaccio in 1428 to execute the wall paintings in San Clemente for Cardinal Branda Castiglione. The final works of Masolino, who numbers among the most important Florentine painters of the early Renaissance, are the frescoes in Castiglione d'Olona near Milan. His works include Pieta, 1424, Museco della Collegiata, Empoli, Virgin and Child with St. Anne, 1425, Galleria degli Uffizi Florence; and Virgin and Child c. 1435, Alte Pinakothek, Munich.