Already working as a painter in 1417, he entered the monastery of San Domenico in Fiesole shortly afterward. His early works can still be placed within the late-Gothic current and the ambit of \b \cf4 \ATXht1102 Lorenzo Monaco \b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 and Genti
le da Fabriano in particular. But the painter soon fell under the spell of the innovations introduced by Masaccio, in terms of a new conception of form and space. He made a conscious attempt to lay the foundations of a modern form of ôsacred art,ö in whi
ch an authentic religious spirituality would be reconciled with the new culture of Humanism and the Renaissance.