Masaccio The Holy Trinity Analysis

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In the painting The Holy Trinity by Masaccio, the characters in the painting are Jesus, St. Marry, St. John, the God Father and the Donors.
On the upper of the painting, we can see that, Jesus who is around 20-33 years old hanging on the cross and overlapping the God father who is around the age of 50-60 standing behind Jesus. On the left side see can see that, St. Marry who is 30-40 years old and the one of the red cloth Donor who is 20-30 years old, is praying to Jesus. However, on the right side, we can see St. John who is 40-50 years old and a black cloth Donor.
There are only 2 objects in this painting which are the skeleton which drawn at the bottom of the painting and the holy spirit is drawn between Jesus and the God father. The colour

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