Many events that alternate within the city and places that have seen Masaccio as protagonist: Florence, Reggello (province of Florence) and San Giovanni Valdarno, in the province of Arezzo. From the many exhibitions that will take place during 2002 at the moment those open to the public are two: "Masaccio e i pittori del suo tempo agli Uffizi" and "Nel segno di Masaccio - L'invenzione della prospettiva".
The former develops through 13 paintings starting from Masaccio involving his contemporary painters: works by Giovanni del Ponte, Gherardo Starnina, Lorenzo Monaco, Gentile da Fabriano, Masolino, Beato Angelico and Paolo Uccello. The exhibition provides a comprehensive vision of renaissance pictorial art in Florence in the first thirty years of the 15th century, a journey travelled not just through works, but also with painters' illustrations and their cards showing their period of production, commission and the context the artists operated in.
Opening the exhibition two Masaccio masterpieces "Madonna appartenuta al cardinal Casini" and "Sant'Anna Metterla"; a trail that highlights the affirmation of Humanism compared to the late gothic coding which were requested by clients at the time. So the passage through painters such as Starnina or Giovanni del Ponte (with his work that will finally be visible again after a long permanence in deposits: "Predella di San Pier Scheraggio"), Lorenzo Monaco and Gentile da Fabriano, and Masolino important exponent of refined culture who was shadowed by young Masaccio's fame and with whom he shared, in 1424-1425, the making of the "Madonna col Bambino", "Sant'Anna e Angeli", the so called Sant'Anna Metterza and the frescoes of the Cappella Brancacci al Carmine.
"Masaccio e i pittori del suo tempo agli Uffizi"
Where: Galleria degli Uffizi - piazzale degli Uffizi
When: until 31st December 2002
Opening times: Tuesday to Sunday 8.15 am to 6.50 pm. Closed Mondays
Entry ticket: 7,65 euro
February.2002
Official website Masaccio celebrations (In Italian)
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