Chiesa di Santa Maria del Carmine

This guide to the Chiesa di Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence begins in 1771 with a fire that gutted the church, except for one small chapel that survived. It traces the chapel back to 1424, when the merchant Felice Brancacci commissioned an unknown young painter, Masaccio, to decorate it, and how his radical style later drew Michelangelo here to study it. Look at the chapel walls for signs of Masaccio's early death at only twenty-seven, just years after starting the work.