Marta de la Torre is former director of the Training Program at the Getty Conservation Institute

In his rich and detailed study

53 color and 24 b/w illustrations

ISBN 978-1-60606-054-4

"The coupling of high-quality reproductions of the original platinum prints with perceptive commentary offers a broad audience considerable insight into this photographic process

Masaccio: Saint Andrew and the Pisa Altarpiece Getty Villa Marta de la Torre isEliot W. Rowlands Ranked by many scholars as the greatest master of early Italian Renaissance painting, Masaccio (14011428) was the first artist to use effects of light to create three dimensional images on a two dimensional plane. This achievement, revolutionary in Masaccio's day, is one of the painter's significant contributions to art history. This book explores Masaccio's accomplishment as epitomized by the multipaneled painting of which the Saint