I painted, and my picture was like life;
I gave my figures movement, passion, soul:
They breathed.
These are the words written about Masaccio by the Italian writer and poet Annibale Caro in the 16th century.
Masaccio died at a very young age, only 27 years old, but still he revolutionized the art of painting.
In “The Lives of the Artist” Giorgio Vasari says Masaccio learned so much from his endless studies that he can be numbered among the pioneers who almost entirely rid painting of its hardness, difficulties, and imperfections.
He gave a beginning to beautiful attitudes, movements, liveliness, and vivacity and painted in a way that no painter had ever before attempted.
On this tour you will see the two most ground-breaking paintings by Masaccio. We will visit the two churches where these Masterpieces are located.
The tour lasts 3 hours.
