Masaccio's legacy

It is a frequent practice of nature to produce a person of great excellence in any profession, then to raise up another to rival him at the same time and in a neighboring domain, so that they may help one another by their emulation and talents. This circumstance also inflames the spirit of those who come after, to endeavor by study and industry to attain to the same honor and glorious reputation which they heard …

…he might have laid the foundation for a painting not less delightful and far more profound than that of Venice. As it was, his frescoes at once became, and for as long as there were real artists among them remained, "the training school of Florentine painters." . REFERENCE: Ahl, Diane Cole. "The Cambridge Companion to Masaccio". Cambridge University Press.2002 Goffen, Rona. "Masaccio's Trinity". Cambridge University Press.1998 Vasari, Giorgio. "The Lives of the Artists". Oxford University Press.1998