\paperw19995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 Italian painter. \par
We know almost nothing about him until 1423, the date of the \i Madonna and Child\i0 (Bremen, Kunsthalle) whi
ch, together with the frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel of the church of the Carmine in Florence, represents his production in Tuscany before 1425, when he was summoned to the Hungarian court. (Both of these works may have been finished by Masaccio.) Maso
linoÆs painting is a lively updating of the Gothic style with an effort to create effects of naturalism. Between 1425 and 1428 Masolino worked in Rome, once again alongside Masaccio, on the polyptych of the \i Madonna della Neve\i0 for Santa Maria Maggi
ore and the frescoes of \i Scenes from the Lives of Saint Catherine and Saint Ambrose\i0 and the \i Crucifixion\i0 in the chapel of Santa Caterina in San Clemente. In 1435 he was in Castiglione Olona (near Varese), decorating the ceiling of the collegi
ate church with \i Scenes from the Life of the Virgin\i0 and a chapel belonging to Cardinal Branda Castiglioni with \i Scenes from the Life of the Baptist\i0 . In this last work fifteenth-century constructions and arcades are combined with landscapes th
at have a new luminosity, foreshadowing the work of Domenico Veneziano.
