Masolino formed himself by working at the north door of the Florentine Baptistery with Ghiberti. Sensitive to the perspective revolution of the fifteenth century, Masolino remained however a late gothic and elegant painter of fairy tales, unable to fully comprehend the innovative capacity that offers the young man that he called to collaborate: Masaccio. Together the worked at the Brancacci Chapel frescos, where Masolino painted the “Original Sin”.
Except for a pause of two years, when Masolino was called in Hungary to paint a chapel, he always worked with Masaccio, until the premature death of the young painter: from that moment Masolino goes back to his vocation of storyteller, but not forgetting the teaching of Masaccio at all, he realizes two fresco cycles in Castiglione Olona, where the fifteenth-century buildings with arches blend with its landscapes of a bright new suggestion, prelude to Domenico Veneziano.