"the brancacci chapel" is a large chapel at the church of santa maria del carmine where masaccio had previously worked painting the procession. it was sponsored by the brancacci family who paid for its decoration. there are no written records to show why or how it happened, but it seems that masaccio and masolino were given the job together. at first everything went very well and then things went very badly. it looked as if the job would never be finished. in fact, it is lucky that the paintings in the chapel survived at all.