With the help of his friend Filippo Brunelleschi, Masaccio is often identified as the first artist to apply theories of linear perspective to painting. His perspectival masterpiece is the Holy Trinity in the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence. Watch the following podcasts produced by the National Gallery of Art on the use of perspective systems in the Renaissance and Masaccio’s Holy Trinity fresco. Describe what effect you think Masaccio’s painting would have on a Renaissance viewer.
Introductory video on Renaissance perspective
Video on Masaccio’s Holy Trinity
(you can also download these podcasts from the NGA server in iTunes)
Groups 1, 2, and 3: Please submit a post by Thursday, 11/3
Groups 4, 5, and 6: Please comment on a classmate’s post by Thursday, 11/3
