Word: masaccio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this attire he climbed to an upper chamber of the Vatican palace (through a window could be seen the squat turret of Castle St. Angelo), and there sat for the popular painter, Raphael Sanzio. Raphael was then in his prime, his original talents reinforced by much critical study of Masaccio, da Vinci, Michelangelo, Bartolommeo. He painted Giuliano with the grace and color befitting even a mediocre Medici...
...most interesting of the earlier Italian Renaissance painters taken from the point of view of his life if not of his art is Tommaso Guidi, nicknamed Masaccio; the son of Sir Giovanni de Simone Guidi, a notary of Florence...
...about 1421, at the age of 19, Masaccio, principally noted at the time for his slovenly dressing and deportment, was enrolled in the gild of druggists in Florence and three years later following out a great inclination for the arts of design which he had showed from childhood, he joined the gild of painters...
...says William Michael Rossetti, "Masaccio was living in Florence with his mother, then for the second time a widow, and with his younger brother, a painter of no distinction; he possessed nothing but debts. Before the end of the next year, he disappeared from Florence, going, as it would appear, to Rome, to evade the importunities of creditors. Immediately afterwards, in 1429, when his age was 27 or 28, he was reported dead...
Professor Edgell in Fine Arts 5h at 10 o'clock this morning in Robinson Hall will speak on Masaccio's work...