1. The Complexity of Masaccio's Trinity
The artist was responsible for everything, organizing a team of stone-masons and apprentice painters, too designing and laying out the complex composition of the work. The Camera Obscura, allegedly used by Vermeer was not to come into play for another three hundred years, yet Masaccio was to lay out a complex grid system of strings while working with a plaster medium that only allowed the artist to cover the wall with as much plaster as he could paint in a day this was to become known as Giornata (Italian for day).Twenty eight different Giornato have been revealed during the renovation work (E...
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