Masaccio's famous religious painting, "The Holy Trinity", is known for his engagement of linear perspective to create an image that goes beyond simple painting on canvas (or should I say wall?) creating the illusion of depth. This painting addresses many religious concepts by setting up different levels and layers within the constructed space. The figures depicted consist of four groups of human figures, including the Trinity (God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit), the Virgin Mary and Saint John, two donors and a skeleton on a tomb at the bottom of the image . There is an apparent point of separation, which is made clear by the fact that each group is on distinct levels. Their power difference is a fundamental element in explaining the relationship described between humanity and divinity in this painting. Due to Masaccio's use and manipulation of perspective and a vanishing point, a new line of finite and infinite is crossed because the visual manifestations of a hierarchical division between eternal life above , death below and life in between are expressed. Masaccio's The Holy Trinity was made approximately in the 1400s and shows a mastery of space and perspective and the use of both elements to convey a message. The message being that there is no strict separation between divinity and humanity. In this image, Christ is depicted on the upper half in a vaulted chapel with the Holy Spirit in the form of a white dove resting atop his halo and the Father, God, above. The other figures that appear here are the Virgin Mary and Saint John who lie below and on either side of Jesus' feet, two bosses below them and a skeleton which rests in a tomb at the very bottom of the image. Formerly orthogon...... middle of paper ......station of the relationship between divinity and humanity, but also a mathematical masterpiece that can represent the harmonious and complete nature of existence divine of God. It is understood that the nature of man is finite due to the limits of mortality when on the contrary; the nature of the Trinity is infinite and eternal. The relationship between the two is depicted through the sacrifice of Christ to save man from his mortal sins and the relationships are presented in the different levels, indicating that the roles of man and God are very different and have different meanings. Masaccio's use of perspective also serves to explain the simultaneous sort of "divine mortality" of Christ and how this can only be explained and accounted for through faith in his sacrifice and how this will lead man to salvation and to overcome mortality..