The Holy Trinity

The Holy Trinity is a fresco by the Early Italian Renaissance painter Masaccio. It is located in the Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella, in Florence. Several diverse interpretations of the fresco have been proposed. Most seen it as a traditional kind of image, intended for personal devotions and commemorations of the dead. The iconography of the Trinity is not uncommon in the period of art. Carved in the wall above the skeleton is an inscription: I once was what you are and what I am you also will be.