History of Western Art 1: Gothic Art (11 of 23)

History of Western Art

Masaccio's ''The Holy Trinity'', a fresco in the church of Sta Maria Novella, in Florence, painted from the side wall of the neighbourly church.
It is a fresco, it is an image which reports to be like a small side chapel.
He goes to study the effects of perspective and he began to learn perspective from his friend, who was the architect Brunelleschi and what he wanted to do when he painted the trinity, was to create this impression, that one looked into a small side chapel and there the trinity is the events that is happening within the side chapel.
And because of that, what he wanted to do was make the side chapel part of the building itself.
So the idea of creating perspective was to make the sense that space was continuos into that image.
Before this he created this thing which was only one point perspective where all of the vanishing lines converged to one vanishing point in the painting.

And when we see early perspective paintings of most of them are of this type, the one point perspective.
It is difficult to overstate the significance of Masaccio's work to the development of Western painting.
Frescoes such as ''the Holy Trinity'' and ''The Tribute Money'', with its dramatic positioning of christ's head relative to the perspective lines of the buildings caused a sensation, because nothing like this had ever been seen before.
Tragically, Masaccio was unable to enjoy the rewards for his artistic achievements.
He died in 1428 at the age of 27.