MASACCIO (originally Tommaso Cassai)
Biography
Plate of Nativity (Berlin Tondo)
1427-28
Tempera on wood, diameter 56 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
This round plate with a Nativity on the front
and a putto and small dog on the back dates from Masaccio's last period
in Florence, before he went to Rome. It was defined by experts as the first
Renaissance tondo, and they drew attention to the important innovations
and the corect architectural perspective reflecting a greater knowledge
and affirmation of the classicism of Brunelleschi. Here the Florentine
idiom is evident in the colour sequences of the geometrical patterns on
the walls of the building and in the court. This is in perfect harmony,
and was to appear again inthe stories of Fra Angelico and the architecture
of Michelozzo in San Marco.
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