1. The Complexity of Masaccio's Trinity
... St John the Evangelist stands to the right looking up at Jesus with adoration. Masaccio brought a new sense of realism to painting, through his continuous study he "cleared away, in a great measure the hardness, the imperfections and the difficulties of the art, and he gave a beginning to beautiful ... true linear perspective, Masaccio created the illusion of a chapel with a vaulted ceiling, for his patrons the Lenzi family, along the west side wall of Santa Maria Novella. Research suggests that Brunelleschi may have designed or collaborated with Masaccio but there is no documented evi...
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