Masaccio's "Holy Trinity," in the Florentine church of Santa Maria Novella, is one of the most intellectually complex and deeply moving pictures ever painted, remarkable not only for its ...

Thought to have been executed in 1596, A nude man (after Masaccio) and two figures behind him has been dubbed the Michelangelo’s “first nude.” The central figure is a copy of the shivering ...

Masaccio discovered how convincingly to make a two-dimensional figure on a flat plane look like a three-dimensional object in real space. Fra Angelico discovered how convincingly to create the ...

A drawing by Michelangelo, discovered in 2019, will be offered for sale next month by Christie’s and could fetch 30 million euros ($33 million), the British auction house said on Tuesday.

Masaccio's Deep Drama. His 'Trinity' fresco unites symbolism and perspective realism. By . Stuart Isacoff. Share. Resize. Art can often mark important shifts in the way a society views the world.

Masaccio’s expulsion is not included in “The Renaissance Nude,” of course, frescoes being embedded in plastered walls and immovable. Nor is Jan van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece, ...