Holy trinity with virgin masaccio

By submitting the above you agree to The Art Story privacy policy. It looks like God is standing on a ledge at the back of the barrel vault but he is also simultaneously at the front of the vault supporting the crucified Christ. At the front of the picture, below the level of the chapel floor, there is a sarcophagus on which Adam's skeleton is laid out as a memento mori for the viewer with its inscription "I was once as you are and what I am you also shall be. The altarpiece was unfortunately taken apart, and to date only eleven panels can be conclusively attributed to it. New York: Though the painting has a narrative subject, Masaccio has focused on the harmonious arrangement of figures rather than the storyline. Art Historian Richard Offner suggests that the meaning of the painting is found "in the degree in which [the figures] reflect a universal order"; in other words the composition reflects the balance and organisation bestowed on nature by God.

Masaccio's Holy Trinity , Smarthistory [4]. The fresco had a huge influence on Michelangelo and his work. It shows Masaccio as a humanists who believed in the dynamic self -principle, and still saw human beings existing in a universe guided by God, but as also possessing powerful capabilities of body and spirit, capable of greatness. This gives an overall vertical-to-horizontal proportion of about