EURO ST 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Vanishing Point, Greek Mathematics, Florence Baptistery
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**who is massacio and what is his influence. Massacio is considered one of the first artists to use linear perspective in painting. His most famous work is the holy trinity, which was an altar piece in the santa. Maria novella church in florence, painted somewhere between 1425-1427. To create the perspectival structure of the image, he nailed a hole in the wall to mark the vanishing point and attached and pressed strings into the plaster to create the orthogonal lines. The image contains god, the holy ghost, mary and john, and two patrons of the work. From the ideal position the viewer reconstructs a three-dimensional space out of lines that massacio had used to make his image. We can say that in the renaissance, the fundamental christian doctrine that god has become man, i. e. god has entered the natural world, i. e. , that the infinite exists in the finite, finds its mode of representation.
