The Brancacci Chapel, located in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence, is one of the most important places in the history of Renaissance art.
The tour of the Chapel takes the visitor on an extraordinary journey through the frescoes by Masaccio, Masolino and Filippino Lippi, realized between the fifteenth and sixteenth century.
The pictorial cycle is dedicated to the Stories of Saint Peter, patron of the Brancacci family, and represents a fundamental breakthrough in Western painting for the innovative use of perspective , natural light and the realistic rendering of human figures.
Masaccio technique was so innovative that artists like Michelangelo came to the chapel to study and copy his figures, considered “alive” as never before.
The famous Expulsion of Adam and Eva was judged too crude: the nudes, expressions of pain and shame were scandalous.
In the seventeenth century nudity was covered with painted leaves, removed only during the restoration of the twentieth century.