In today\u2019s class, we discussed The Tribute Money by Masaccio. We spent a good amount of time dissecting the work and I enjoyed the discussion. One of my favorite aspects of it is his treatment of light. We talked about how he made the narrative nonlinear by starting at the center, so that the first thing the viewer saw was Jesus Christ in the center. However his use of light is a more subtle way in which he attributed focus to Jesus. If you look closely, the sun is shining Christ the most frontally, and all the apostles at either side of him are slightly obscured. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think he managed to create narrative in a way that is more akin to contemporary ways of showing narrative than a lot of the other artists we have encountered. We also made the comparison to The Lamentation, and although I do like Giotto\u2019s work more, I have to say that the way in which Masaccio uses the environment of the scene to add to the narrative and separate is done more gracefully (I only say this in light of how important progress is for the Italians).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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