{"id":11,"date":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2026-10-19T22:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:54:24","slug":"holy-trinity-by-masaccio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/20\/holy-trinity-by-masaccio\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Trinity by Masaccio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Holy Trinity by Masaccio\" alt=\"Holy Trinity by Masaccio\" src=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/masaccio-holy-trinity.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Holy Trinity Masaccio, 1426-27 Fresco, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the most important works of the <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10035\">Early Renaissance<\/a> is the fresco of the <em>Holy Trinity<\/em> of 1426-27 by Masaccio. Clearly evident is Masaccio&#8217;s absorption and application of <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10121\">Brunelleschi<\/a>&#8216;s new invention of 1424 of linear <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?page_id=13\">perspective<\/a> in the <em>Holy Trinity. <\/em>The perspective lines of the <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?page_id=13#illusionism\">illusionistic<\/a> barrel vault<em> <\/em>draw the viewer into deep space. The fully rounded figure of Christ in the <em>Holy Trinity<\/em> can be attributed to the influence of sculptor <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10032\">Donatello<\/a> on Masaccio with his interest in classical art. Both Brunelleschi and Donatello were working contemporaneously with Masaccio in Forence at the time the <em>Holy Trinity<\/em> was executed. <br> <br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Casting aside the current Gothic style of ornamentation, detail, and flat, two-dimensionality, Masaccio constructed his <em>Holy Trinity<\/em> painting with simplicty and naturalistic three-dimensionality. The <em>Holy<\/em> <em>Trinity<\/em> strongly influenced the works of later Florentine artists like <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10125\">Michelangelo<\/a> Buonarroti and many others. Masaccio died in Rome ca. 1427(8?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Masaccio was influrenced by <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10035\">Early Renaissance<\/a> sculptor <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10032\">Donatello<\/a> architect Brunelleschi and by <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10092\">Trecento<\/a> artist, <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10045\">Giotto<\/a>. Masaccio strongly influenced <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10049\">High Renaissance<\/a> artist <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10125\">Michelangelo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brenda Harness, Art Historian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most important works of the Early Renaissance is the fresco of the Holy Trinity of 1426-27 by Masaccio. Clearly evident is Masaccio&#8217;s absorption and application of Brunelleschi&#8216;s new invention of 1424 of linear perspective in the Holy Trinity. The perspective lines of the illusionistic barrel vault draw the viewer into deep space. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italian-renaissance-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10272,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/10272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}