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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