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 ...

Art selection and commentary by Heidi J. Hornik, who teaches in the art department at Baylor University, ... Masaccio is following a well-known artistic convention of associating the “throne of grace” ...

Art can often mark important shifts in the way a society views the world. Consider literature's Sturm und Drang ("Storm and Stress") movement (1767-1786), whose turbulent emotions signaled a swing ...

No period in art is named after Fra Angelico, but his achievement is arguably more profound–albeit more elusive–than Masaccio’s. The difference between the two quattrocento masters is ...

With our lives become mundane, more and more people are turning to art to bring in some vibrancy and soul in their day. Not ...

Six centuries ago, in a side chapel of an important church in Florence, Italy, a wealthy local silk merchant commissioned the artist Masaccio (1401-1427) to paint a fresco of Adam and Eve being ...

The painting was recently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York — only the third time it has ever left Paris, though it cast a wide influence on the next century or so of nudes ...