I have several times written that early western painting, until the late Renaissance, not uncommonly incorporated multiple copies […]
Masaccio
Looking at the stories shown in the main paintings of the Brancacci Chapel, Florence.
Vasari praised Masaccio’s fresco, then six years later painted over parts of it, and put his altarpiece in front, obscuring it for nearly 300 years.
His final frescoes were an inspiration to Michelangelo and others in the Renaissance, and include one of the greatest paintings in Europe.
The first few years of his short career, in which he modelled faces and clothes to bring volume, and started perspective projection.
The importance of perspective in Western painting is hotly debated, but there is no doubt that is has brought about very visible change.
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