{"id":10074,"date":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10074"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","slug":"masaccio-s-tribute-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/20\/masaccio-s-tribute-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Masaccio’s Tribute Money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Masaccio’s Tribute Money Fresco, ca. 1427 Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria della Carmine, Florence Buy your own hand painted oil reproduction of Masaccio’s Tribute Money.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For the first time since antiquity in Western art, we see the use of full perspective<\/a> in Masaccio’s Tribute Money. <\/em>Masaccio’s Tribute Money<\/em> is a fresco series of ca. 1427 in the Brancacci Chapel of the church of Santa Maria della Carmine<\/em> in Florence.

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Masaccio’s Tribute Money<\/em> depicts a scene from Matthew’s Gospel, that of the arrival of Jesus and the Apostles in Capernaum and a visit from the tax collector. Masaccio’s Tribute Money<\/em> tells the as three separate events happening at different times: first, the tax collector requests the tribute money to Rome, and Jesus tells Peter how to find it; second, Peter fishes as directed by Jesus and catches a fish in Lake Genezaret, then extracts a coin from the fish; third, Peter pays the tax collector with the coin (tribute money). Contemporaneous to Masaccio’s Tribute Money <\/em>was a controversy over a proposed tax reform in Florence which was settled in 1427. The Biblical story referenced by Masaccio’s Tribute Money<\/em> is meant to teach the legitimacy of paying taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also noteworthy in Masaccio’s Tribute Money<\/em> is the innovative technique of the use of a single light source in this fresco series. Masaccio’s Tribute Money<\/em> and Expulsion from Paradise<\/em> are considered to be Masaccio’s masterpieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masaccio was influrenced by Early Renaissance<\/a> sculptor Donatello<\/a>, architect Brunelleschi<\/a> and by Trecento<\/a> artist, Giotto<\/a>. Masaccio strongly influenced High Renaissance<\/a> artist Michelangelo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brenda Harness, Art Historian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the first time since antiquity in Western art, we see the use of full perspective in Masaccio’s Tribute Money. Masaccio’s Tribute Money is a fresco series of ca. 1427 in the Brancacci Chapel of the church of Santa Maria della Carmine in Florence. Masaccio’s Tribute Money depicts a scene from Matthew’s Gospel, that of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italian-renaissance-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10285,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10074\/revisions\/10285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}