{"id":10135,"date":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10134"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","slug":"the-tribute-money-by-masaccio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/20\/the-tribute-money-by-masaccio\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tribute Money by Masaccio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Masaccio, Tribute Money, 1425-27\" alt=\"Masaccio, Tribute Money, 1425-27\" src=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/masaccio-s-tribute-money-6ffdbc8e3bd9.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Tribute Money by Masaccio, ca. 1427, fresco, Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria della Carmine, Florence Click here to see a hand painted oil reproduction of Masaccio&#8217;s Tribute Money.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the first time since antiquity in Western art, we see the use of full <a title=\"Glossary of Art Terms\" href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?page_id=13#perspective\">perspective<\/a> in <em>The Tribute Money<\/em> by Italian Renaissance artist, Masaccio. <em>The Tribute Money <\/em>by Masaccio is a fresco series of ca. 1427 in the Brancacci Chapel of the church of Santa Maria della Carmine in Florence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Tribute Money<\/em> depicts a scene from Matthew&#8217;s Gospel, that of the arrival of Jesus and the Apostles in Capernaum and a visit from the tax collector. The <em>Tribute Money <\/em>story is told here 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 the<em> Tribute Money <\/em>by Masaccio was a controversy over a proposed tax reform in Florence which was settled in 1427. The Biblical story referenced by <em>The Tribute Money <\/em>is meant to teach the legitimacy of paying taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also noteworthy in <em>The Tribute Money<\/em> is the innovative technique of the use of a single light source in this fresco series. <em>The Tribute Money <\/em>and <em>Expulsion from Paradise<\/em> are considered to be Masaccio&#8217;s masterpieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brenda Harness, Art Historian<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> <h2> <h2>For more information on Italian Renaissance Art and recommended books, <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?page_id=10039\">click here.<\/a><\/h2><\/h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since antiquity in Western art, we see the use of full perspective in The Tribute Money by Italian Renaissance artist, Masaccio. The Tribute Money by Masaccio is a fresco series of ca. 1427 in the Brancacci Chapel of the church of Santa Maria della Carmine in Florence. The Tribute Money depicts [&hellip;]<\/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-10135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italian-renaissance-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135","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=10135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10320,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135\/revisions\/10320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}