Masolino da Panicale, properly Thommaso di Cristoforo Fini c.1383-1447
Florentine painter

He is usually associated with Masaccio because of his work with him in the Brancacci Chapel of the church of S Maria del Carmine in Florence. Sixteenth-century sources say he was Masaccio's master but this seems unlikely (in the Brancacci Chapel the influence seems to be the other way around). Masolino was, however, a much older artist, trained in the International Gothic style in the Ghiberti and Starnina workshops. The strongest early influence on him was Gentile da Fabriano. Masolino's greatest work is the fresco cycle in the Baptistery and Collegiata of Castiglione d'Olona near Como (1430s). His influence is clear in the work of Domenico Veneziano and Paolo Uccello.