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adoration of the magi
composition
International Gothic style
- gold and the naturalism of the nature in his painting presented elements of the everyday life
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- the manner of multiple narrative scenes
colour light modelling

- uses chiaroscuro
- it’s used in the left hand panel of the predella where he shows the illumination in the foreground
from a single light source within the picture
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- figures and forms lit up by stamped and richly tooled patterns of gold leaf - wise men glow
against their gold background
- elaborate altarpiece with pilasters and gables all gilded
- original pastiglia (embossed and decorated gesso) provided extra ornament
- oil glazes employed have led to losses and abrasions, which have also occurred in places where
tempera was painted over gold
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- eye-catching brightness and colour, naturalistic modelling and naturalistic detail

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- elements in his style is more of realism and narrative power (from the figures, tax collector) and
the precise architectural, sculptural work
- more sense of space in Massacio’s painting ( we can see the half-dead trees, Amo river,
mountains …
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- continuos narrative in
which peter appears 3 times
- peter is identified by his blue and orange robe; while the costumes are ’timeless’
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- The cloaks of the disciples goes back to the Roman antique and the garments look more like the
ones from the sculptures Massacio was inspired from
- tax collector is contrapposto: his posture copies that of Peter, but the other way around
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This
semicircle could reflect the shape of the Chapel’s apse
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colour light modelling

- uses chiaroscuro
- uses it through an angle that casts shadows on the ground along with concealing some of the
figures and highlighting others
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perspective pictorial space

- aerial perspective in Massacio’s painting where the mountains and Peter by the river are painted
darker than other objects which invents the illusion of depth
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His lines of perspective
which are orthogonal shows Massacio painting and developing the technique of one point
perspective
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- Massacio’s painting has one light source of frame from the right on the wall
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materials techniques processes
- Massacio’s painting where the foliage and the faces of the Apostles are painted with quick, soft
brush strokes
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- Massacio had to paint onto the process of arriccio and intonaco before it dried
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