Tribute Money

Artwork: Tribute Money

Artist: Masaccio

Created: 1425

Medium: Fresco

Dimensions: 2.47 x 5.97 m

Location: Brancacci chapel, Church of S. Maria del Carmine, Florence, Italy

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“The Tribute Money is set in a wintry landscape where the grave group of Christ and his disciples stand like stone figures, weathered but imperishable. Everything trivial and mundane is supperssed. The scene is lifted out of associations of time and place. A classical concentration is concerned with the human figure alone, and the faces are moulded with the massiveness of archaic sculpture.” (ML)

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