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Masaccio's Trinity painted around 1426, Florence, Sta. Maria Novella. Pay particular attention to the slabs on the ceiling and how they give the sense of space - the vanishing point of these horizontals is very low on the painting, which gives an imporession of the ceiling and Christ being higher then they actually are.
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