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Ma⋅sac⋅cio

[mah-saht-chaw; Eng. muh-sah-chee-oh]
–noun
(Tommaso Guidi) 1401–28?, Italian painter.
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Ma·sac·cio   (mə-sä'chē-ō, mä-sät'chō)   
Italian painter of the Florentine school whose revolutionary use of linear perspective and mastery of light and shade profoundly influenced Renaissance painting.
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