Masaccio (1401-1428) painted in a more natural manner than the elaborate, detailed Gothic style preferred by his predecessors. He used linear perspective in a very precise, scientific way. In this painting, The Holy Trinity, one can actually calculate the dimensions of the small chapel in the back of the painting. He uses one-point perspective, so that the viewer's eye is drawn to the vanishing point and to the figure of Christ (this is reinforced by the triangle formed by the patrons on the sides and the body of Christ). The vault is painted such that the ceiling and figures are foreshortened, rendering a 3-D space realistically. The figure of God, however, is the exception. He looms behind the other figures, as a being who cannot be confined by finite dimensions.
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