The Comparison and Contrast of The Tribute of Money and The Last Judgment

Humanities 212

02 /19 /09

The Comparison and Contrast of

The Tribute of Money and of the Last Judgment

This will give an insight as to the similarities and differences of two paintings that are religious in nature , both have a story to tell , and created close to 100 years apart . The first of the two paintings , The Money of Tribute by Masaccio , captures its audience with the great detail put forth into the biblical story it depicts . The second of the two paintings was created by the ever infamous

Michelangelo with the creation of The Last Judgment . A brief discussion into the lives of the artist will give a background for a better understanding as to their influences to their art that has captured audiences for hundreds of years and will continue to do so

The Tribute of Money is located in the Brancacci Chapel , and was created by Masaccio in 1425 . According to The Tribute Money this painting is an example of Masaccio 's mature work , demonstrating full accomplishment of his revolutionary new Renaissance style (Par . 3

Michelangelo Buonarroti was born in the sixteenth century (1475-1564 ) and is considered one of the greatest artist of all time Born during the Renaissance Era near Florence , Michelangelo grew up in a home bursting with Neoplatonic and humanistic ideas he was fortunate because his home also served as a art school (Benton , DiYanni 26 Growing up around the arts had an enormous impact on Michelangelo becoming the well-known and

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magnificent painter , architecture , poet , and infamous sculpture sculpting was his life-long passion . His religious beliefs had an enormous impact on his painting . His religious feelings had always been important to him and we can see a sort of dark , spiritual nature progress throughout his life , especially in his painting The Last Judgment that one of his works done later in his life

The most obvious similarity between The Tribute of Money , and The Last Judgment is they are both biblical in nature . For example , The Tribute of Money is a continuous narrative with three scenes , depicting a story from Mathew 's Gospel (Masaccio 's Tribute Money Par . 1 Michelangelo 's The Last Judgment is centered around a dominate figure of Christ . There are many different scenes representing biblical images such as , judgment day which gives the painting a great depth of biblical meaning and each scene telling a story all of their own . The main subject of The Last Judgment is a figure of Christ in a glowing divine light ' The centered figure of Christ is painted as a broad and powerful image although the proportions of Christ 's body are obviously out of proportion , a classical reminder of Michelangelo 's change in his painting style . His palette grew more monochromatic , and the proportions of his figures grew broader and more menacing , were according to Ruehring (Ruehring

The stories the two paintings described are fascinating to follow throughout the entire paintings . The intent of the two painters is to...