53 color and 24 b/w illustrations

ISBN 978-1-60606-017-9

and Ornella Salvadori

a World Heritage Site near Dunhuang in western China

ISBN 978-1-60606-054-4

Masaccio: Saint Andrew and the Pisa Altarpiece Getty Villa 53 color and 24 b/wEliot W. Rowlands Ranked by many scholars as the greatest master of early Italian Renaissance painting, Masaccio (14011428) was the first artist to use effects of light to create three dimensional images on a two dimensional plane. This achievement, revolutionary in Masaccio's day, is one of the painter's significant contributions to art history. This book explores Masaccio's accomplishment as epitomized by the multipaneled painting of which the Saint