A Closer Look: Episode 34 - The Brancacci Chapel
The Brancacci Chapel sits inside a large church on the south bank of Florence’s Arno river. In the 1420s, artists Masolino and Masaccio frescoed a cycle of paintings here that is today considered one of Western Europe’s most formative artworks.
We often talk about Masaccio’s innovations in pictorial perspective and foreshortening, but the average visitor to the Chapel is less aware of how deeply enmeshed its scenes and their protagonists were, in the daily life of this fifteenth-century Florentine neighbourhood.
In this episode of A Closer Look, Dr Nicholas Eckstein, a historian and expert on the Brancacci Chapel, takes a closer look at Masaccio's fresco of St Peter healing with his shadow.
Dr Nick Eckstein
Nick Eckstein is a historian with an international reputation for his innovative research into the society and culture of Renaissance Florence.
Dr Kathleen Olive
Kathleen is one of Australia’s best-known cultural tour leaders, with over fifteen years’ experience leading tours to Western Europe, North America, Australasia and Japan. She is a director of Limelight Arts Travel.