Title: Masaccio's Trinity /
Authors: Goffen, Rona, 1944-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Masaccio,; Masaccio, Criticism and interpretation.
Abstract: This volume examines the Italian Renaissance painting, the Trinity, by Masaccio. The author considers the Trinity in its historical and spiritual contexts, and examines its liturgical function in the great Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella.
Contents: Introduction : Masaccio's Trinity and the early Renaissance / Rona Goffen -- The Florentine elite in the early fifteenth century / Gene Brucker -- Masaccio's Trinity and the letter to Hebrews / Rona Goffen -- Masaccio's fresco technique and problems of conservation / Ornella Casazza -- The perspective construction of Masaccio's Trinity fresco and medieval astronomical graphics / Jane Andrews Aiken -- Time and the timeless in quattrocento painting / Yves Bonnefoy -- Masaccio's skeleton : art and anatomy in early Renaissance Italy / Katharine Park.