Madonna dell umilta masaccio biography
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Masolino da Panicale
Italian painter (c. 1383 – c. 1447)
Tommaso di Cristoforo Fini (c. 1383 – c. 1447), known bygd his nickname Masolino da Panicale (lit. 'Tommy from Panicale'), was an Italian painter. His best known works are probably his collaborations with Masaccio: Madonna with Child and St. Anne (1424) and the frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel (1424–1428).
Biography
[edit]Masolino was possibly born in Panicale, present-day Umbria.[1] He may have been an assistant to Ghiberti in Florence between 1403 and 1407.[2] In 1423, he joined the Florentine guildArte dei Medici e Speziali (Doctors and Apothecaries), which included painters as an independent branch. He may have been the first artist to create oil paintings in the 1420s, rather than Jan van Eyck in the 1430s, as was previously supposed.[3] He spent many years traveling, including a trip to Hungary from September 1425 to July 1427 under the patronage of Pip
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Madonna of humility
Artistic subject
"Madonna dell'Umiltà" redirects here. For the church in Pistoia, see Madonna dell'Umiltà, Pistoia.
A Madonna of humility or Virgin of humility is a depiction in art of the Virgin Mary sitting on the ground, or upon a low cushion. She usually holds the Christ Child in her lap, making it one form of the Madonna and Child.[1] The iconography originated in the 14th century, and was most common in that and the following century.
Initially mostly using a gold ground style, when painted backgrounds came to be preferred in the 15th century, this pose is very common in images of the Virgin in a hortus conclusus or "enclosed garden", where the Virgin often sits on the flowery grass.
History and development
[edit]Humility is a virtue extolled by Saint Francis of Assisi, and this iconography was associated with Franciscan piety, although it was not the creation of the Franciscans, since the artist first associated with the image
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