The vault of the cardinal Brancacci is located at the end of the right transept of the church Santa Maria del Carmine Florence (district of the Oltrarno).

In 1424, the banking rich person Felice Brancacci orders from Masolino da Panicale the decoration of this vault belonging to him.

Revelation of the painters

Masolino begins its work in 1424 but joined Budapest during three years, where he is painter at the court.
In its return in 1427, he collaborates with his friend Masaccio in the cycle of paintings. New stop in 1428. Both leave to Rome for an order the pope but Masaccio dies there mysteriously.
Filippino Lippi will finish the cycle between 1480 and 1485.

The place especially remains famous thanks to the innovations of the Masaccio young person who does not hesitate to represent the ugliness over the face of driven out Eve of the Paradise in company of Adam (the table, censured then by addition of branches of olive-trees hiding the nudity of Adam and that of Eve will be restored in 1990 and will find its original pace), remarkable by the brilliance of its clearly-obscure and the application of the laws of the perspective discovered by Brunelleschi.

In 1771, the vault escapes the fire which will destroy the church, damaging only the wood of the gilded executives separating the frescos, but smoking out paintings.

Frescos

The frescos relate to the life of saint Pierre and that of the Original sin . They will be restored in 1990 pennies the joint direction of Umberto Baldini and Ornella Casazza and thanks to the patronage of the firm Olivetti for a budget of most important of this period.

The Original sin

Higher fresco

• Temptation of Adam Masolino
• Adam and Eve driven out of the Paradise , Masaccio

Life of Pierre saint

Higher frescos

• Payment of the Tribute , Masaccio
• Preaching of saint Pierre , Masolino
• Saint Pierre baptizing and curing one estropié and Saint Pierre ressuscitant Tobie , Masolino and Masaccio (for the backgrounds)
• Saint Pierre and holy Paul disputing with Simon the Magician Filippino Lippi (in this fresco the painter represented himself like one of the characters, in Autoportrait)

Lower frescos

• Saint Pierre in prison receives the visit of saint Paul , Filippino Lippi
• Saint Pierre ressuscitant the nephew of the Emperor , Masolino and Filippino Lippi
• Saint Pierre in pulpit , Saint Pierre curing the patients by covering them with his shade and Saint Pierre and holy Jean making alms , Masaccio
• Crucifiement of saint Pierre , Midsummer's Day in front of the proconsul and Ange delivering holy Pierre , Filippino Lippi (this cernier table waited until 1838 so that one recognizes the hand of Lippi)

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