Masaccio (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Masaccio

But for all this interest in Masaccio the painter, we know almost nothing of Masaccio the man. Vasari, though commenting with enthusiastic fulness on the artist's work, is more than usually confused in the account of his life, and does not even console us with the usual embroidery of anecdotes. A few no tices we glean from the ever-fruitful Florentine tax-register, whose prying into private affairs, hateful as it was to the men who had to submit to it, yields the archaeologist so many solid facts to serve as confirmation or correction to the sketchy biographies of the time. One or two inferences may also be made from other documents, and something may be supplied from our knowledge of general conditions. These scanty data can be summed up as follows.

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