Early Renaissance Painting in Perspective: Masaccio's Brancacci Chapel and the Holy Trinity
Dr. Rocky Ruggiero

This lecture will examine the frescoes in the Brancacci chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine that clearly demonstrate the evolution from Gothic to Renaissance style painting. Here the painters Masaccio, Masolino and Filippino Lippi worked side by side to create one of the defining decorative spaces of the Renaissance. We will then move on to the church of Santa Maria Novella to view one of the most important paintings of all time – Masaccio’s Holy Trinity. This is the first painting to ever make use of the tool known as linear perspective and demonstrated the Renaissance had indeed surpassed the limits of Classical painting.