Procession of Figures

MasaccioWW-1700-008274

1700·Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over graphite, on cream wove paper·14.8 × 12.4 cm (5 7/8 × 4 15/16 in.)

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Catalogue

Year: 1700
Medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over graphite, on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 14.8 × 12.4 cm (5 7/8 × 4 15/16 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Masaccio

Artist

Masaccio

Painting

Masaccio, born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, was a Florentine artist who is regarded as the first great Italian painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. According to Vasari, Masaccio was the best painter of his generation because of his skill at imitating nature, recreating lifelike figures and movements as well as a convincing sense of three-dimensionality. He employed nudes and foreshortenings in his figures. This had seldom been done before him.

San Giovanni Val d'Arno, Italy

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