St Peter Healing With His
Shadow
By 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
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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 END
By Melma, Janina, Asher, Ayla