Masolino, also called Masolino da Panicale, original name Tommaso di Cristoforo Fini   (b. 1383, Panicale, near Perugia, Romagna—d. probably 1440–47, Florence), painter who achieved a compromise between the International Gothic manner and the advanced early Renaissance style of his own day and who owes his prominence in the history of Florentine art not to his innovations but to his lyrical style and his unfailing artistry. Masolino came from the same district of Tuscany as his younger contemporary Masaccio, with whom his career was closely linked. Trained in a Florentine ...