The triptych is the first work attributed to Masaccio and the earliest known painting essay using the geometric Renaissance perspective.

At the bottom of the panels, the inscriptions are in modern humanist letters for the first time in Europe, not inscribed in Gothic characters:[1] (ANNO DO)MINI MCCCCXXII A DI VENTITRE D'AP(RILE) - [April 23, 1422] - under the central panel (PLE)NA DOMINUS.

BENEDICTA - on the throne step and traces of the saints' names on the side panels.

The work was in a state of poor preservation, and the first who took care of it was the art historian Luciano Berti.

After 27 years, meanwhile kept in the superintendency's storage areas, it was placed in the Romanesque church of San Pietro a Cascia, and then in 2002, in the Museum of Sacred Art.