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Question #1

Masaccio's Holy Trinity is credited with being the first true example of one-point linear perspective.

A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Question #2

One-point linear perspective had been developed by ____________________ one year earlier.

A. Fra Angelico

B. Masaccio

C. Brunelleschi

Question #3

Which of the following is NOT true of Masaccio's Holy Trinity?

A. The center of the painting shows the Trinity, or three-part nature of God, in the Catholic tradition: God the Father, the Holy Spirit, and Christ.

B. The figure of Christ shows a realistic and sympathetic body, which is typical of the way that Renaissance artists married faith and science.

C. The barrel vault with coffers recalls the architecture of Ancient Egypt.

D. Many families commissioned a chapel in fifteenth-century Florence, but this is more modest, as it is only the illusion of a chapel.

Question #4

Everything in this space is meant to appear disjointed and unnatural.

A. FALSE

B. TRUE