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Maso [Tommaso; Masaccio] di Bartolommeo
(b Capannole, nr Valdambra, Arezzo, 1406; d c. 1456). Italian sculptor. He is first recorded working with Donatello and Michelozzo between 1434 and 1438 on the installation and decorative relief-carving of the external pulpit of Prato Cathedral. From 1438 to 1442 he executed part of the bronze grille of the Cappella del Sacro Cingolo in the cathedral, until a dispute halted his work. It is gothicizing in style, with a pattern of delicate rosettes and elegantly twisted stems of naturalistic plant forms interspersed with animals and putti. In 1447 Maso made a gilded bronze reliquary inlaid with bone and tortoiseshell for the same chapel. It is decorated with a frieze of leaden putti dancing clumsily behind a colonnade and is ultimately derived from Donatello’s Cantoria made for Florence Cathedral (Florence, Mus. Opera Duomo).
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- Maso di Bartolommeo
- Donatello, §II: Working methods and technique
- Michelozzo di Bartolomeo, §1(ii): Life and career, 1441–72
- Pasquino da Montepulciano
- Urbino, §2: Art life and organization
- collaboration
- patrons and collectors
- works
- Brunelleschi, Filippo, §I, 1(vi): Palazzo di Parte Guelfa
- Carnevale, Fra
- Italy, §II, 3(i)(c): Early Renaissance architecture, c 1400–c 1500: Marches & the Veneto
- Michelozzo di Bartolomeo, §2(ii)(b): Mature architecture
- Prato
- Statuette, §II, 1(i)(a): 15th century: Central Italy
- Urbino, §1: History and urban development
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