Talk:Masaccio

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I think this article needs to be renamed. No art history text gives his name as "Tommaso Masaccio", which is a bit like calling someone Thomas Big-Tom, or, dare I say it, Richard Fat-Dick. "Masaccio" is a sort of nickname derived from an abbreviation of Tommaso ("Maso") with an insertion implying big, clumsy, hulking etc. It's generally assumed to have been used to distinguish him from his co-worker, also called Tommaso, but usually known as Masolino, meaning "little" or "delicate" Tom. So the Two Tom Chums were "Clunking Tom" and "Clinking Tom", as it were. Though the name is recorded by Vasari, there's no reason to believe he invented it. As for the notion that it means "sloppy", afaik that's one of the alternative connotations of the term implying large/clunking etc. Paul B 14:39, 4 May 2006 (UTC)