With Masaccio’s work, as with much of Van Eyck’s, the emphasis on nature was such as could have led to painting with a true biblical viewpoint. Coming on to Filippo Lippi (1406-1469), it is apparent that nature begins to “eat up” grace in a more serious way than with Van Eyck’s Madonna of the Chancellor Rolin.
They added landscape and The chancellor of Rolin is the same size as Mary.
