In this painting by Masaccio, it demonstrates Alberti’s idea ‘La più grassa Minerva’. Masaccio clearly has demonstrated linear perspective with chiaroscuro techniques, we can also see this through his colour choice and depiction of three dimensional characters in three different settings. “The outline and surface, then, give their names to the plane but there are two qualities by which the plane is not altered (although it appears to be). These take their variations from the changing of place and light.”-Alberti’s Della Pittura. Masaccio has used an ancient narrative format, by telling three different stories in the one painting. The first image you see when looking straight at the painting for the first time is the middle image, the reason