Masaccio's Accomplishments During The Renaissance

During the fifteenth century the Renaissance was wedged between the power of political families and religious institutions. These institutions acquired great wealth that has influenced and developed ideas associated with their cause or self-image they wanted portrayed to the public. Italy, during the Renaissance was not a nation but rather a collection of republics, city and states and kingdoms. One republic that flourished was Florence, known for its cloth and wool industry as well as their aesthetic creativity that commanded the works of many artist. Artist began to see life as it was, which gave way to new forms of expression based on the past, humanism. During this time, “literary culture, the sciences, arts and human activities in their …show more content…
It is up to you to dust off your feet and understand you will be sheep amongst the wolves (Mathew). Masaccio’s story combines versus selected from different chapters in Mathew that details why Apostles are barefoot and Jesus’s journey as they enter the town of Capernaum. Capernaum is located on the northern side of Sea of Galilee. This is where Jesus is met by the tax collector asking the Apostle’s, does your master not pay tribute (Mathew). Jesus sends Peter off to fish where he will find money in the fish’s mouth. Thus allowing them to pay tribute to the tax collector. The humanism and linear perspective are both used to create the painting as you see mountains that fade off into the distance and Peter retrieving money in the background from the fish’s mouth. The painting truly details how the New Testament spoke to Masaccio. “The thematic richness of Masaccio’s frescoes, as well as the overall iconographic design of the cycle and power of his form, contributed to their impact on the fifteenth-century painting” (Adams …show more content…
His use of colors, facial details of glory and despair are throughout. “Satan is bound during the Millennium-The Saints will then live and reign with Christ-The dead stand before God and are judged out of the books according to their works” (Mathew). Chapter twenty of The Book of Revelations provides great insight to the thought, interpretation and perspective of how Fra Angelico interpreted God’s word spoken through his prophets. It is evident Fra Angelico is deeply religious, though his in-depth studies helped him prepare a masterpiece of work that so tells the second coming as he saw