after the feast day, it seems that masaccio went to rome, probably with his friends. brunelleschi and donatello like to spend a lot of time poking around among the ruins of ancient rome. it is believed that on this trip masaccio also spent a lot of time poking around in the ruins. what he saw were the sculptures of a previous age- more lifelike and realistic than anything that he had ever seen before. many of the sculptures showed pocessions of figures, but each figure was different from the next, so that they all looked like real "individual" people.