The Tribute Money - Masaccio  |
| The Tribute Money towards 1424-1428 Fresco, 2.25 x 5.98 m Masaccio, Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine (Florence) |
Heavy solid and sculpture. They move of their own accord, letting us know that under their clothes bones and muscles are ready for action, as he put firmly planted on the ground, seen from the front. Not like the Gothic where they stood on tiptoe, not as in the Gothic where the figures are ghosts of fragile crystal, which, as the smoke with a slight breeze could disappear. The illumination corresponds to the natural light received by the wall where the cool comes from the right side, and shapes the volumes of the bodies. These bodies dominate the space in which they operate, where they move, while in the background lies a desert landscape, barren hills, barren, and distant. Faithfully reproduced, and supported by the prospect of Online trees are located in space in a place away from the main action. The action can be developed in this created world can be complex and not just symbolic. In the center of the image we have the tax collector who claims his tribute, while the figure of Jesus to Peter, pointing to the lake, to remove a fish's mouth the currency for payment. Peter does it, and in the right part gives the coin collector. This occurs simultaneously, but can easily be read as the successive phases of an action. The cool convinces us of the action represented a more human than divine, this is the intended purpose. Purpose is endorsed by the composition, and the importance attached to the shares. The miracle in itself, is represented in a circumstantial, is Christ and his disciples who occupy the main focus of attention is cool, then focuses human communication and action. Emphasized by the figure of Peter, present in all three scenes, founding father of the church, in charge of dealing with man and land in Christian mythology.
