Masaccio (1401-1428), the first great interpreter of Renaissance painting, combined pictorial art and mathematical art of perspective. Born in San Giovanni Valdarno, near Florence, the Tuscan artist was a pioneer of that cultural cross-fertilization which made the Italian Renaissance unique and universal. Recombining creatively the most diverse segments of the DNA of art – sculpture, painting, mathematics, geometry, architecture – Masaccio contributed significantly to the cultural literacy that characterizes the Age of the Renaissance.
