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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. Brunelleschi

B. Fra Angelico

C. Masaccio

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

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

Question #4

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

A. TRUE

B. FALSE