Renaissance Art

(in college 100-level course, I received a perfect score with "brilliantly written" as a professor's comment) Masaccio’s fresco The Tribute Money (1427) is a continuous narrative which uses contrapposto, aerial perspective, and humanistic facial expressions and body postures to illustrate purposeful interaction in its portrayal of divine intervention to assuage a resolute IRS man. This concept of “emotions in motion” is even more stunning in his Expulsion from Paradise (1427), and his Holy Trinity (1425) is a …

…as negative emotions. The Flemish style also is seen further east, for example, in the symbolism-laden Miraculous Draught of Fishes (1444), a Conrad Witz narrative that is also the first depiction of an actual landscape (Lake Geneva). Art and artists within this discussed time period obviously shared pervasive discoveries, concepts and ideas, but each locale and its painters developed and evolved work with distinct “signatures.” Who is my favorite? Ask the Man in a Red Turban.