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 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