Brancacci Chapel Audio Guide
Explore Brancacci Chapel with Stanza's GPS-triggered offline audio guide.
About the Tour
The Brancacci Chapel is a renowned chapel located within the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence, Italy. It is famous for its cycle of frescoes by Masaccio and Masolino, considered a masterpiece of Early Renaissance painting.
What you will hear
The Fall of Man: Temptation and Expulsion
Explains the 'Artistic Collaboration' by comparing Masolino’s soft Temptation with Masaccio’s raw, emotional Expulsion.
The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden
Witness the raw, heartbreaking realism of Masaccio’s Expulsion, where the first couple is driven from paradise in a state of primal, unbridled grief.
The Masterpiece: The Tribute Money
Focuses on the chapel's most famous fresco, highlighting scientific perspective and the three-part narrative structure.
The Tribute Money
This complex narrative tells three stories at once, using a revolutionary technique called scientific perspective to draw your eye toward the central figure of Christ.
The Apostles' Expressions
See how the Apostles are rendered as people with physical weight and distinct personalities, reacting with genuine human emotion to Christ's unexpected command.
Miracles in the City Square
Examines the right wall where Masolino and Masaccio blended their styles within a 15th-century Florentine architectural setting.
Miracles in the City Square
The biblical miracles here take place against the backdrop of a 15th-century Florentine square, complete with laundry hanging from the windows of local houses.
Politics and Resurrection
Discusses the political censorship (Damnatio Memoriae) and the self-portraits of the artists themselves.
Raising of the Son of Theophilus and Saint Peter Enthroned
Discover the story of political revenge hidden in this fresco, where portraits were once literally hammered off the walls to erase a family's memory.
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