The Brancacci Chapel, high expression of Renaissance painting in Florence, is inside the church of Santa Maria del Carmine. Its walls were painted by three artists: Masolino da Panicale, Masaccio and Filippino Lippi.

The Brancacci family, rich silk traders, commissioned in 1424 the frescoes to Masolino, with whom collaborated the young and ingenious painter Masaccio, the starter of the Renaissance painting, by the application of perspective theories by Brunelleschi.

The chapel remained unfinished because of the untimely death of Masaggio during his trip to Rome to discover and study archeological remains from the Ancient Age.

The Brancacci chapel was completed at the end of XV century by Filippino Lippi in an elegant style and became immediately a pilgrimage place for young artists to study the new style by Masaccio.