In the occasion of the 600 years from Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Mone Cassai’s birth, definitely better known as Masaccio, Florence dedicates a number of celebrations ending in December 2002, to better get acquainted and confront the artist, who died aged only 27, and his time, that of the Renaissance.

In particular, the exhibition "In the sign of Masaccio. The invention of perspective", at the Uffizi Gallery, prolonged till the 7th of April, is a journey through the history of perspective in painting.

A conceptual and artistic revolution – that of perspective renaissance painting – which started in Italy in the first decades of the 1400’s, and would have completely upturned all European art of the following centuries. Even today, for example, the works of Piero della Francesca are a starting point and source of inspiration for the new generations of architects. It is for this reason that a section of the exhibition is dedicated to Florentine and Sienese painting of the 1300s.
 
The exhibition’s path starts with Masaccio’s Trinità di Santa Maria Novella, a fresco that is paradigm of perspective painting of the time. As well as the paintings and the artistic production per se, the exhibition gives ample breadth to the tools used by the artists for their creations, researching an ever more faithful (and scientific) representation of reality.

There are, among others, the tools made by Brunelleschi when, before his stunned co-citizens, he depicted the Battistero of Florence or Piazza della Signoria.

  
When: prolonged until 7th April 2002
Opening times: Tuesday to Sunday 8:15 am-6:50 pm
Tickets: euro 7,65 (£. 15.000). The ticket is inclusive of visit to the Uffizi Gallery
Where: Uffizi Gallery, Piazzale degli Uffizi, Florence
Bookings and info:  8.30 am - 1.30 pm, Firenze Musei, tel. +39 (0)55-2654321

January.2002

The site on the centenary (In Italian)
Uffizi Gallery (In Italian)
Masaccio (In Italian)
Masaccio's works
Piero della Francesca
Brunelleschi