Masaccio – Institute for the Study of Western Civilization

1401	On December 21, Tomaso di Ser Giovanni (Masaccio, a nickname) is born in San Giovanni Valdarno (formerly Castel San Giovanni).
1418	Masaccio in Florence. Working as a craftsman and studying art.
1422	In January, Masaccio registers with the painter’s guild. Arte dei Medici e Speziali, while living in the district of San Niccolo on the south side of Arno river. In April, Masaccio completes the San Giovenale Triptych. First example of Brunelleschian ideas about perspective in a painting.
1423	Masaccio is working in Rome with his friend Masolino. Painting the Colonna Altarpiece for Santa Maria Maggiore, for Pope Martin(Colonna).
1424	Masaccio paints the Madonna and Child called Santa’ Anna Metterza for the church of Sant Ambrogio, Florence.
1425	Masaccio’s friend, Brunelleschi, makes the first mathematically precise linear perspective painting, the now lost panel of the Baptistery painted from door of the cathedral of Florence. Masaccio paints the Brancacci Chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine. Commissioned by Felice Brancacci. The Tribute Money panel of the wall fresco is the first multifigured composition since Antiquity in which figures are all unified in one coherent space.
1426	Masaccio paints Pisa Altarpiece painted, Santa Maria del Carmine, Pisa, parts of which are now dispersed in various museums (London, Berlin, Getty), including the masterpiece central panel of Madonna and Child, as well as the panel of the Crucifixion and Saints.
1427	Masaccio paints the fresco, The Trinity, on the wall of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, using Brunelleschi’s ideas about perspective. In July, Masaccio makes his Catasto (Income tax) declaration. Written in his own hand and still in Florentine archives. He is living in the Santa Croce district with his mother and his brother; also renting a bottega (workshop) from the Benedictine monastery of the Badia in Dante’s neighborhood.
1428	In June, Masaccio dies in Rome. We don’t know the cause of his death.