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Of course, you know Masaccio was the first to make use of Brunelleschi’s architectural perspective?
No other painter, not even Leonardo, changed so quickly and with such amazing results
You see, Masaccio made an astonishing leap between the style of the San Giovanni triptych and the Trinity
What is interesting is that the doctrine fo redemption is also a blurring, a sfumatura, of space and time
You must see this vaulted ceiling. The perspective, the blurring, the vanishing point
… in seeing the forms in the painting as real, believe in the subject
The receding diagonals give the illusion of reality so that one might, …
We haven’t the advantage of seeing these parts in a catalog or as a print, have we?
Perspective was Masaccio’s theology