{"id":1804,"date":"2024-02-26T18:32:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T18:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2024-05-21T01:31:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T01:31:55","slug":"2-21-research-diary-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/02\/26\/2-21-research-diary-5\/","title":{"rendered":"2\/21, Research Diary 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last Wednesday, toward the beginning of class, we focused our attention toward Masaccio’s The Tribute<\/em> Money<\/em>. The story is striking as it is told from the Gospel of Matthew, yet it is unique to many biblical stories. The story is continuous, showing St. Peter portrayed three times throughout the work. The story is not intended to be read left to right, like we are used to, and the significance of this detail is that Christ becomes the focal point of this work. Perhaps Christ being the focal point draws on the importance of Christ’s intent to look over the people of Florentine. One way he does this is by enforcing that church shall pay their own taxes. The painting’s colors are necessary to note, as Masaccio utilizes dark versus light colors, vibrant reds, blues, teals, and oranges, thus allowing for the subjects to look closer than they actually are. As the textbook wrote, the posture and stances of the figures decreases the spacial setting area of the work. I particularly like this painting, because of the colors, the rich detail of the figures clothes and body figures, and ultimately the feeling that you get — it is as if you are experiencing the scene yourself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continuing on with Masaccio’s works, we centered on his, The Holy Trinity with the Virgin, St John and Two Donors. <\/em>Masaccio’s work does something that many artists struggled or even denied doing: depicting the Trinity. The painting’s colors are majority blues and reds and the architecture is contemporary. Moving on, we focused on Michelozzo’s Palazzo Medici-Riccardi<\/em> and the differences between architectural buildings for people living in Florence. Michelozzo’s architectural designs, along with other architects and their works, convey the power held by wealthier palace owners in Florence. Lastly, we looked at Donatello’s David<\/em>, addressing the pinnacle of Florence, David, and his poised, calm, young figure. Finally, the last work we looked at include’s Paulo Uccello’s Battle of San Romano<\/em>. This work is particularly interesting, given it is not to portray a violent battle, but is perhaps more of a set scene or background of everything that is going on in society at the time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Wednesday, toward the beginning of class, we focused our attention toward Masaccio’s The Tribute Money. The story is striking as it is told from the Gospel of Matthew, yet it is unique to many biblical stories. The story is continuous, showing St. Peter portrayed three times throughout the work. The story is not intended […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2834,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/2834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}