Masaccio, an Italian painter, born in Florence; went when very young to Rome, where he painted in the church of St. Clement a series of frescoes, his greatest work being the frescoes in the Brancacci chapel of the Carmine church; he was a great master of perspective and colour (1402‒1443).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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