Expulsion from Paradise

Pain and shame this is my short description about this fresco.

Artwork: Expulsion from Paradise

Artist: Masaccio

Medium: Fresco

Location: Brancacci chapel, Church of S. Maria del Carmine, Florence, Italy

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“In the Expulsion from Paradise the miserable nakedness of Adam and Eve contrasts with the dignified robed figures of the Tribute Money close by. The gateway to Paradise is barley suggested; all concentrates on the half-crazed despair of the slow-moving too human couple, Eve wailing and Adam dumb and blind with grief.

Leaving the Carmine frescoes probably unfiltered, Masaccio went to Rome where he died prematurely. He had been little honoured, but Brunelleschi had been his friend and was left in Florence to mourn in his own words ‘una gran perdita.’ For long the Carmine frescoes served as a school of study for painters, and Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo all acknowledged an indebtedness to Masaccio.”

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