The Complete Paintings by the Master of Perspective
Part of the Master Artists Library series
To understand any revolutionary figure, one needs to dig deeply and find roots - not only roots for the figure, but the roots of the time in which he lived. So it is with Masaccio, who caused a revolution in painting so enormous that only over 400 years later, with the development of the photograph, did his conception of painting and of the world come to a sort of popular culmination. The photo meant that even the least educated, the least skilled, and the poorest could own, appreciate and make pictures like those Masaccio had invented.
This book follows Masaccio's roots back as far as Christianity's earliest days, tracing this great artist's life. It contains his magnificent works, illustrated in full colour.
