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Summary

Masaccio: Holy Trinity

Artist



Alternative names	Birth name: Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone
Description	painter
Date of birth/death	21 December 1401	1428
Location of birth/death	San Giovanni Valdarno	Rome
Work location	Florence
Authority file	: Q5811 VIAF: 7368513 ISNI: 0000000121191860 ULAN: 500026649 LCCN: n79006973 NLA: 35332383 WorldCat

Title

Holy Trinity

Object type

fresco

Genre

religious art

Description

The "Trinity" was one of the first painting to show a greater understanding of one point perspective in an interior space. The barrel vault shows the grandeur of Rome. Figures shown are Mary, Saint John and the petitioners on the lower step.

Depicted people

Jesus

Date

between 1425 and 1428

Medium

fresco

Dimensions

height: 667 cm (21.8 ft); width: 317 cm (10.4 ft)

Collection

Basilica of Santa Maria Novella

	Native name	Santa Maria Novella, Florence
	Parent institution	Fondo Edifici di Culto
	Location	Florence
	Coordinates	43° 46′ 27.48″ N, 11° 14′ 57.72″ E
	Established	1278 / 1458 / 2001
	Authority file	: Q51175 VIAF: 157095715 ULAN: 500305290 LCCN: n79100216 GND: 4214339-1 BNF: 12482821f WorldCat

Object location

43° 46′ 28″ N, 11° 14′ 57″ E

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MASACCIO

(b. 1401, San Giovanni Valdarno, d. 1428, Roma)

Trinity 1425-28 Fresco, 667 x 317 cm Santa Maria Novella, Florence

This is the most famous work of Masaccio beside the frescoes in the Cappelle Brancacci. There are various opinions as to exactly when this fresco was painted between 1425 and 1428. It was described in detail by Vasari in 1568, who emphasized the virtuosity of the "trompe l'oeil" in the architectural structure of the painting: "a barrel vault drawn in perspective, and divided into squares with rosettes which diminish and are foreshortened so well that there seems to be a hole in the wall."

Only two years after Vasari's book was published, the erection of a stone altar caused the fresco to be covered up by a panel of the Madonna of the Rosary painted by Vasari himself. Thus the fresco remained unknown for further generations from 1570 to 1861 when owing to the removal of the 16th century altar it was again uncovered. After being removed and placed on the internal facade of the church between the left and the central doors, it was put back in its original position in 1952, as a result of the discovery, beneath the 19th century neo-Gothic altar, of the lower section of the fresco with Adam's skeleton and the painted altar table, once part of the whole work.

The reconstructed work was taken up by critics as the symbol and revelation of Brunelleschi's principles in architecture and the use of perspective, to the point that some believed Brunelleschi to have had a direct hand in the work.

The most likely interpretation of the Trinity is that the painting alludes to the traditional medieval double chapel of Golgotha, with Adam's tomb in the lower part (the skeleton) and the Crucifixion in the upper part. But it can also assume the significance of the journey the human spirit must undertake to reach salvation, rising from the earthly life (the corruptible body) through prayer (the two petitioners) and the intercession of the Virgin and saints (John the Evangelist) to the Trinity.

A close-up view of the skeleton in the sarcophagus also revealed the ancient warning, in clear letters: I WAS WHAT YOU ARE AND WHAT I AM YOU SHALL BE.

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Author: MASACCIO Title: Trinity Time-line: 1401-1450 School: Italian Form: painting

Type: religious