The Tribute Money

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The Tribute Money is a renowned Renaissance painting, most famously depicted by Masaccio, illustrating the biblical story of Christ instructing Peter to find a coin in a fish’s mouth to pay the temple tax.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Renaissance painting
fresco
artHistoricalPeriod Quattrocento
artisticStyle Renaissance
author Masaccio
basedOn Gospel of Matthew
surface form: Gospel of Matthew 17:24–27
centeredOn Christ as vanishing point of perspective
city Florence
commissionedBy Felice Brancacci (family patron of the chapel)
completionDate circa 1427
country Italy
creator Masaccio
depicts Jesus Christ
Apostle Peter
surface form: Saint Peter

apostles of Jesus
architectural background with classical elements
biblical story of the temple tax
coin in the fish’s mouth miracle
mountainous landscape background
tax collector
depictsScene Christ confronted by the tax collector
Peter paying the tax collector
Peter taking the coin from the fish’s mouth
genre religious painting
hasSetting Capernaum
surface form: Capernaum (biblical setting)
inception circa 1425
influenced Filippino Lippi
Florentine Renaissance painting
Michelangelo
languageOfTitle Italian
locatedIn Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence
location Brancacci Chapel frescoes
surface form: Brancacci Chapel
materialUsed fresco on plaster
movement Early Renaissance
movementWithinWork figures arranged in semicircle around Christ
notableFor continuous narrative composition
early use of linear perspective in Renaissance art
unified light source modeling figures
partOf Brancacci Chapel frescoes
surface form: Brancacci Chapel fresco cycle
religion Christianity
technique buon fresco
theme faith and providence
obedience to civil authority
taxation
titleInItalian Il Tributo
uses chiaroscuro
linear perspective
single-point perspective

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Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister hasNotableWork The Tribute Money
Masaccio notableWork The Tribute Money