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Name: Masaccio
Birth Date: 1401
Death Date: 1428
Place of Death: Rome, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupations: painter

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Biography of Masaccio
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The Italian painter Masaccio (1401-1428) was the first great exponent of Renaissance painting. In his brief life he produced four major works utilizing the new discipline of space defined in perspective. Tommaso di Giovanni, called Masaccio, was born...


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Masaccio Information
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Masaccio (born Tommaso Cassai or in some accounts Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Mone; December 21, 1401 – autumn 1428), was the first great painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. His frescoes are the earliest monuments of...


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The New York Observer
Oil on an Unusual Surface: A Painter Finds His Marbles
1/22/2006: 926 words, approx. 3 pages
The painter Don Joint is in love—in love, that is, with marble. Mr. Joint’s recent efforts in oil, on display at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, are the result of a chance encounter with a still-life painted on marble by the 18th-century Dutch artist Gerard...
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The New York Observer
Oil on an Unusual Surface: A Painter Finds His Marbles
1/22/2006: 925 words, approx. 3 pages
The painter Don Joint is in love—in love, that is, with marble. Mr. Joint’s recent efforts in oil, on display at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, are the result of a chance encounter with a still-life painted on marble by the 18th-century Dutch artist Gerard...
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The New York Observer
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11/5/2006: 804 words, approx. 3 pages
Mark Grotjahn’s large abstract drawings are so meticulously crafted and striking in effect that, looking at them, I wonder why they don’t excite me more. The pieces are all handsome and, in their own way, masterful. I feel a twinge of guilt for not loving...
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The New York Observer
Smooth Around the Edges: Pollock Thrives on Paper
7/2/2006: 1,333 words, approx. 4 pages
No Limits, Just Edges: Jackson Pollock Paintings on Paper, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, is an exhibition that manages two remarkable feats. It rescues Pollock the man (1912-1956) from the mythos of the hard-drinking, antisocial and self-destructive cowboy, and it liberates Pollock the artist...
 


 

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