Masolino da Panicale
By: Perri Lee Roberts.
Series: Clarendon studies in the history of art
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: Masolino, da Panicale, 1383-1440? -- Criticism and interpretation.; Painting, Renaissance -- Italy.
Description: Masolino da Panicale is a study of the life and works of the early fifteenth-century Florentine artist (active 1423-35), who is best known for his collaboration with Masaccio on the frescos of the Brancacci Chapel of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, restored to their original brilliance in 1983-88. This book fills a serious gap in the literature on Italian Renaissance art. Although there have been numerous, recent contributions to the study of Masolino, a detailed monograph has been lacking.

Perri Lee Roberts discusses the nature of Masolino's and Masaccio's collaboration, and their styles. She includes up-to-date information about the newly-cleaned frescos in the Brancacci Chapel and other works by Masolino, a detailed analysis of his works in chronological order, a discussion of his patrons, and an evaluation of his place in the history of Early Renaissance painting.

Two appendices contain all the known documents concerning Masolino, and a catalogue raisonne of his accepted, related, and rejected works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-247) and index.