Masaccio

Masaccio's paintings give sacred figures physical weight through light, shadow, and perspective. In the Brancacci Chapel, where he worked alongside Masolino, The Tribute Money links moments of Saint Peter's story through gesture. The Holy Trinity creates the appearance of a deep chapel within a church wall. His Virgin and Child for Pisa's Carmine church, painted in egg tempera on wood, was the center of a larger altarpiece, with music-making angels and Christ reaching toward Mary's grapes.