马萨其奥(1401～1428年)
Masaccio，原名Tommaso di Giovanni di Mone Cassai。
义大利画家。1422年加入佛罗伦斯艺术家行会後才为人所知。由於受乔托的影响，作品中多采用大片人物形象和简洁的布局。但其人体画中表现手势和情绪的技法与多那太罗相近。他最着名的作品是与马索利诺一起为佛罗伦斯圣玛利亚.德尔.卡迈纳教堂的布朗卡奇（Brancacci）礼拜堂绘制的大型壁画（1425年～1428），他用明暗对比强烈的灯光来对人物形象进行处理，使其产生一种三维空间的效果。他为佛罗伦斯新圣玛利亚教堂创作的湿壁画《三位一体》（1427年～1428），是第一幅系统地采用了透视法的绘画作品。1428年来到罗马，在那里突然死亡，以致於有人怀疑他是被人下毒害死。他短短六年中所创作的作品体现出高度的合理性、写实性和人性，激励了15世纪中期佛罗伦斯的主要画家，从而影响了西洋画派。
English version：
1401～1428年
Masaccio
Italian painter. Little is known about him until 1422, when he entered the artists' guild in Florence. Giotto probably influenced his massive figures and spare composition, but the gestural and emotional expression in his rendering of the human body are closer in spirit to Donatello. In his most famous work, the frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel of Florence's Santa Maria del Carmine (c. 1425-28), painted in conjunction with his sometime partner, Masolino, his figures are constructed with strongly differentiated areas of light and dark that give them a three-dimensional effect. His Trinity fresco (c. 1427-28) in Florence's Santa Maria Novella is the first extant example of the systematic use of one-point perspective in a painting. He went to Rome in 1428 and died there so suddenly that some people suspected he had been poisoned. The rationality, realism, and humanity of the art he created in his brief six years of work inspired the major Florentine painters of the mid-15th century, and ultimately influenced the course of Western painting.