Holy Trinity

I think that Masaccio’s Holy Trinity made an astounding effect on the viewers. He used not only the linear perspective but also brought up new Renaissance ideas like Humanity and Realism. Even though all the characters were flat, they still looked alive and realistic, by painting them in normal human size. The other detail that could surprise people of that age was depicting God as a human. He was “not a force or a power, or something abstract like that, but a man. A man who stands — his feet are foreshortened, and he weighs something and walks, and, I suppose, even has toenails! In medieval art, God was often represented by a hand, just a hand, as though God was an abstract force or power in our lives, but here he seems so much like a flesh and blood man!” (http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/holy-trinity-santa-maria-novella-florence). The intention was to bring God closer to people.