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#64 – Masaccio
Born 1401 as Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, "Masaccio" (his nickname) was regarded as the first great Italian painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance.…
#63 – Fra Angelico & Pope Nicholas V
Born Guido di Pietro but known to us as Fra Angelico which means the "Angelic friar". Despite his early talent for painting, at age 12 he entered the…
#62 The First Renaissance Man
The first written work of art theory, produced during the Renaissance was “De Pictura”, or “On Painting”, written in 1435 by Leon Battista Alberti but not published until…
#61 That New Car Smell
After returning to Rome to work for the Vatican, Poggio Bracciolini starting making some serious money of his own. Enough to get married and buy a big house.…