Note 32 — Chapter III · MASACCIO AND THE NEW REALISM
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The rider with his back turned at the left of the fresco of the Calvary has a rondel protecting the nape of his neck. It is a short-lived and unsuccessful invention which was not used before 1435–40. This information, which I owe to Dr. Bashford Dean of the Metropolitan Museum, dates the Calvary well after Masaccio’s death, and, inferentially, all the other frescoes in the same chapel.