How does Masaccio's The Tribute Money demonstrate the characteristics of Italian Renaissance art?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Masaccio used linear perspective and atmospheric perspective to integrate figures, architecture, and landscape into a consistent space that recedes logically into the far distance.
2. Masaccio used linear perspective in the depiction of the house and then reinforced it by diminishing the sizes of the barren trees and reducing the size of the crouching Peter at far left.
3. Jesus's head aligns with the vanishing point established by the orthogonals of the house, and Masaccio used color to create atmospheric perspective in the distant landscape.
4. Masaccio also modeled the figures with bold highlights, shadows, and contrasting colors to create a sense of volumetric solidity, and used foreshortening to create the illusion that the figures' haloes are hovering in space.
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