Masolino (c. 1383-c. 1447)

Italian painter. He worked with Masaccio on the fresco cycle in the Brancacci Chapel of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, 1425-28. Though he shared Masaccio's enthusiasm for the newly discovered technique of perspective, he reverted, after the younger man's death, to his own preferred decorative style, moving away from the Renaissance novelty.

A goldsmith in his youth, he is believed to have worked under Lorenzo Ghiberti on the baptistery doors at Florence (1403-07), before turning to painting. Other works besides the Brancacci Chapel include a Madonna, dated 1423 (Bremen), frescoes at Castiglione d'Olona (c. 1435), and an altarpiece, parts of which are in the galleries of Naples, Philadelphia, and London.