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Hidden inside the otherwise unassuming church of Santa Maria del Carmine on the southern side of the Arno in Florence, the Brancacci Chapel holds one of the most important fresco cycles in the entire history of western art. Painted in the 1420s by Masaccio and Masolino and completed half a century later by Filippino Lippi, the chapel is considered the cradle of Italian Renaissance painting. The chapel was commissioned by Felice Brancacci, a wealthy Florentine merchant and diplomat, who engaged ...