Cappella Brancacci

This guide to the Cappella Brancacci in Florence follows Masaccio, who at twenty-one began painting these walls alongside the older master Masolino, capturing grief and shadow with a realism Florence had never seen. It traces what happened after he was called to Rome and died there at twenty-seven, leaving the chapel unfinished, and how the Brancacci family's exile in 1436 led friars to erase their own portraits from the plaster. Look for the figure of Eve on the left wall as you listen.