The Masaccio Museum - Cascia - Reggello, Tuscany

Housed behind a church, The Masaccio Museum displays the art that was created in and around Cascia and Reggello. It includes the very first painting by Masaccio, which is a triptych, who’s central panel depicts The Virgin and Child.

It also holds paintings by Lippi, Masolino, and The School of Ghirlandaio. It is a small gem of a museum in The Valley of The Arno, forty minutes south of Florence.

Masaccio was the first master painter of Linear Perspective. His “Trinity” in Santa Maria Novella in Florence was a milestone. Here, in his very first painting he uses orthogonal lines that continue on to the arms of the throne and converge upon The Virgin and her child, the vanishing point.

Going back to The Masaccio, on the left, Saint Juvenal is reading Psalm 109. The writing on the book is Masaccio’s, representing his signature.

Here are two martyr saints: St. Bartholomew the Apostle and St. Blaise, bishop of Sebaste in Armenia.

The Child has two fingers in his mouth, sweetened by the grapes, a Eucharistic symbol, which he holds in his other hand.