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Holy Trinity, fresco by Masaccio, 1425–26, in the Church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence.
Masaccio’s artistic career lasted for a span of only six years. Although he was born in 1401, his documented professional activity began in 1422 when he matriculated into the Florentine guild of painters, and he died in 1428. Despite this brief period, his work as a Florentine painter of the Early Renaissance radically transformed the history of painting.12