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St Peter Healing With His Shadow. By Masaccio. Space and Setting. Linear pers p ective is used to create depth. Vanishing point is out of the painting. It’s a typical Florentine street, contemporary buildings and naturalistic landscape. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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St Peter Healing With His ShadowBy Masaccio
Space and Setting
• Linear perspective is used to create depth. Vanishing point is out of the painting.
• It’s a typical Florentine street, contemporary buildings and naturalistic landscape.
• Classical building and background may refer to Jerusalem as the city of the Biblical story.
Composition
• The figures are on the right side of the painting and only takes up half of the painting(horizontally).
• The blind and the crippled creates eye movement diagonally going up towards St Peter.
Light
• Light coming from the right side.
-Realistic -Shadows -Adds depth into the
painting although shadows in setting make it look flat and unrealistic.
Colour• Natural and earthy colours• Clothing e.g -blue represents royalty -gold represents divinity
and heaven -red represents
martyrdom• Realistic colouring
Form
• Solid forms• Classical buildings
and architecture• 3D tonal modelling
Evidence of Humanism
• Naturalistic landscape/setting• Linear perspective• Classical architecture• Anatomically correct figures• Logical• Natural facial expressions
Iconography
• Blue: royalty, shows St Peter as a high authority
• Gold: heavenly/divine and important
• Haloes: heavenly figure• Red: passion• Hand gestures/kneeling:
Praises and idealises St Peter.
Good Citizen Theme
• The moral behind the painting is to initiate to help other peoples and not expecting anything in return.
THE ENDBy Melma, Janina, Asher, Ayla
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