Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Trinity
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Trinity
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Alternate Title:
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Trinita
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Image View:
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Detail, top of the work with Classical triumphal arch and barrel vault with vanishing point perspective
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Creator:
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Masaccio (Italian painter, 1401-1428)
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Location:
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repository: Santa Maria Novella (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Piazza Santa Maria Novella, 18
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GPS:
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+43.7746+11.2493
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Date:
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ca. 1425-1428 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Fifteenth century; Renaissance
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Work Type 1:
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fresco (painting)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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pigment on plaster
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Technique:
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fresco painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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640 cm (height) x 317 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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New Testament; Jesus Christ; John, the Apostle, Saint; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
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Description:
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Masaccio’s fresco is unique in Italian painting in its representation of the Trinity within an illusionistic, Classically inspired interior framed by the motif of a triumphal arch instead of against a gilded or landscape background. At an unknown date after the completion of the fresco, an altar was placed in front of the image of 'death', a skeleton on a catafalque surmounted by the inscription: io fu g[i]a quel che voi s[i]ete equel chison[o] voi a[n]co[ra] sarete ("I was once that which you are and that which I am you will also be"). In 1570, when redesigning the church’s interior, Vasari covered the upper part of the fresco with one of his altarpieces; it was rediscovered during renovations ca. 1860 and transferred to the entrance wall. The altar in front of the lower part was removed in 1951, and in 1952 the two parts of the fresco were reunited, cleaned and restored. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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6A1-MASAC-SMN-HT-A07
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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