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OCR: LIFE Masaccio (Tommaso di Giovanni di Simone Guidi) (1401-1428). Florentine painter, a leader of the early Italian Renaissance. His frescoes in Sta. Maria del Carmine, Florence (1425-28), which he painted with Masolino da Panicale, show a decisive break with Gothic conventions. He was the first painter to apply the scientific laws of perspective, newly discovered by the architect Brunelleschi, and achieved a remarkable sense of space and volume. Masaccio's frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel of Sta. Maria del Carmine (late 1420s) include scenes from the life of St. Peter, notably"The Tribute Money," and "Adam and Eve's Expulsion from Paradise." They have a monumental grandeur, without traces of Gothic decorative detail, unlike the work of his colleague and teacher Masolino. Masaccio's figures have solidity and weight and are clearly set in three dimensional space. Other works by Masaccio are the "Trinity" (about 1428, Sta. Maria Novella, Florence) and the polyptych for the Carmelite church in Pisa (1426, National Gallery, London/Staatliche Museen, Berlin/Museo di Capodimonte, Masaccio Naples). Although his career marks a turning point in Italian art, he attracted few imitators.