A Comparison of Two Paintings from the Renaissance Period Essay

Renaissance artists sought to replicate what made classic art so divine and one way they did this was through idealization. In this piece, the Madonna, or also known as the Virgin Mary is seated in a room, holding baby Jesus, and reading a book. The pair are presented in a faultless manner. This is brought out by the softness of the Virgins skin as well as that of Jesus which portrays youth, and that goes back to this idea of purity found in Greek principles. The Virgin’s facial expression is seamless in the fact that she is occupied by the book she is reading presumably the book of hours. Also, looking at the

“Madonna” is a medieval Italian term for a really important woman, who has always been used commonly in reference to images of the Virgin Mary. I noticed the size of Salvador Dali’s painting is not like other painting. It’s rather small, only 20 x 11 inches, so just 6 inches larger than piece of legal sized paper, which it’s quite unique and comfortable. The Madonna stands towering over man and mountain while babies with Matisse-like shadows swirl around her. She looks like a hero who can save all the people who have still suffered from affliction. We cannot see the face of baby that she holds and although I find this to be kind of disturbing. Actually, I do not know the reason why Dali deals with this part in this way. The Madonna is smiling and attracting these babies, which makes people relax themselves and forget the voice of bombing and firing outside. By viewing this painting, we can figure out the belief of Dali by watching some details. For example, at the bottom of this painting, there is a path that leads to Madonna’s feet, which means everybody wants to receive the blessing from the Virgin Mary. From this example, we can infer that Dali expected everybody to get

Introduction This paper will explore the detail expressed through religion based renaissance art. The two works to be explored here are The Last Supper and the Virgin of the Rocks, which both have Christian references and have properties owing to the depictions of the main character in the painting. The Last Supper was created in 1498, in Milan and is on oil and plaster; Virgin of the Rocks was created circa 1483-1486 and is oil on panel. Works to Explore In Virgin of the Rocks, a woman is sitting, surrounded by what looks like three children.

Through society had used art as a consideration for their religious beliefs and educated morals the panting Madonna Enthroned has a traditional Christian subject, representing the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child seated on her lap. This large painting is an extremely important landmark in art history.

During the Renaissance, the people of Europe experienced a rebirth of culture and study of classical antiquity. New ideas arose that transformed every aspect of European life. Beginning in Italy, the Renaissance spread northward to the rest of Europe. Italy had the advantage of not being hit by the Black Death or the Hundred Years War, in comparison to the rest of Europe, and therefore was able to trade to Asia and maintain prosperous cities during the Middle Ages. The Italians, as a result, had merchants who were proud of their success in business, which they believed was possible because of their merit as an individual. The merchants were able to fuel the Renaissance in Italy by commissioning artists and writers to produce specific works. Northern Europe still needed to recover from the Black Death and Hundred Years War to gain political and economic stability to have a Renaissance. While both the Italians and Northern Europeans went through a Renaissance, they experienced the Renaissance differently, and the similarities and differences between their experiences in terms of how they each developed the ideals of humanism, individualism, and secularism is evident in Renaissance artists’ works, specifically Michelangelo’s David and van Eyck’s The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin.

The utilization of perspective allowed the viewers to have a more intimate relationship with items of worship in a sacred setting. Many paintings were closely tied to sacred paintings as an item to assist worship or to retell the narrative of the Bible. the renaissance was also a time of fascination with realism, exampled by Vasari’s praise of “the bare torso for its perfection as an anatomic study” in regard to the Piero della Francesca. Art is also very complicated in that it “grounds its persuasiveness in the “truth” of optical experience” (Pardo, Giotto and the Thing Not Seen). The addition of perspective allows sacred paintings to appear three dimensional, adding a complexity to worshippers as it seems as the bible narrative or the person of worship (Mary, Christ, etc.) is appearing out of the painting directly to the worshipper. This interaction caused the viewer to feel more intimate in their worship as they felt that they had a genuine, almost tangible connection with the actual religious figures. Perspective in sacred use is further shown with “the possibility that the

This late impressionist painting is one of many by Cassatt that depict a tender moment between a mother and her child. It references both the religious image of Madonna and Christ from the Renaissance and earlier, as well as the contemporary issue of women being consigned to a purely domestic role. The perspective of this painting is particularly unusual for a portrait, given that the two figures are depicted from above while both looking downward, therefore foreshortening their facial features. At the same time though, there is a warm intimacy to the painting that is derived from the comfort that each figure clearly takes from the company of the other. The influence of Japonisme can also be identified through the painting’s flattened aesthetic

Both of the artworks, by Bartolo di Fredi, have a similar style with similar details. Both of angle Gabriel and Virgin Mary were painted inside the wooden frame with the shape of the interior of a church. The common dome structure, which was a popular structure for church during the Medieval art period, were carefully shaped and decorated with great amount of details to create the illusion that both Virgin Mary and Saint Gabriel were standing inside a church. The content of these two artworks are very clear. By using the frames with the shapes of a church as well as the decoration of the interior inside a church, audiences can clearly understand that these artworks were biblical arts and they were created as decorations for churches. With both iconic style for Saint Gabriel and Virgin Mary, audiences can clearly see that these two artworks were created to depict the holy moment when an angel was sent to Virgin Mary with the announcement the Virgin's destiny as the mother of

During the Renaissance, Christianity still had a great influence in art however many tried to represent the Virgin’s maternal side due the humaneness and relatability. But there are many differences between the two paintings, the most obvious one being the difference in the background which emphasizes the shift during the Renaissance away from the importance of the material to the importance of skill. The image of the Madonna and Child is on a simpler all gold background and the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child with St. John the Baptist and Two Angels has a very detailed landscape in the foreground with trees, rocks, mountains and the

When I compared these peices, my eye was drawn to were the poepl were placed. Specifally the figures of importance. Jesus and the virgin Mary are displayed on a grand throne. However, what surronds them is very difference in both peices of art. In " The virgin and cild", the angels around the throne are at different levels. In " Madonna Enthroned" the angels in this are arranged so that some are closer to the perciever. They have a clear apperances where as the ones located towards the back are slighlty skewed.

The painting titled “Madonna and Child with St. James Major and St. Jerome” was created by Girolamo di Romano (or Romano the second) in ca. 1484-1562. This painting comes from the Italian renaissance period beginning in the late 13th century and continuing to the late 16th century. The time of this renaissance was a time when the Italian peninsula was divided into many political areas. The Italian Renaissance paintings were influenced by Philosophy, Literature, Architecture, Theology, Science and Government in Italy and often achieve much of their effect through color and mood.

This paper will examine the paintings of George De La Tours’s The Penitent Magdalene (1640-1645), Sebastiono Del Piombo’s Christ Carrying the Cross (1635-40), Santi di Tito’s Vision of St Thomas Aquinas (1593), and Caravaggio’s Madonna of Loreto 1603-1606).

Madonna and Child is a panel painting by Italian medieval artist Duccio di Buoninsegna. Painted in tempera and gilded on a wood panel in around the year 1300, the Madonna and Child is still in its original engaged frame. The fact that it was in private hands and out of public circulation for years might be why the painting is basically intact after 700 years. The craftsmanship and preservation are simply amazing. The damaged lower edge of the frame is charred where devotional candles may have tipped over. The Madonna and Child is presently part of a special exhibition "The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions" in

One piece of art could be favored in the past but not currently popular today. The Italian Madonna and Child Beside a Window painted by Mariotto di Biagro Bindo Albertinelli is a beautiful rendition realistically painted capturing the depth of field. The viewer can imaginatively reach out and touch the painting just kids want to if only the museum would let them. The green and blue mixed into the fabric in the front also in the back of the picture in the landscape creates the illusion of depth in the foreground even in the background of the painting. The blue and the green in the scene in the background painted with loose brush strokes similar to the expressionistic art of Pechstein of the ballerinas, but the ballerina's picture is more expressive with bright color along with a looser style. These two colors give a

An iconographic approach to interpreting Correggio’s Madonna and Child with Infant John the Baptist asks us to look for hidden meanings or symbols within the work of art. A pre-iconographic description of Correggio’s Madonna and Child with Infant John the Baptist would be the identification of a two babies and a woman. An iconographic analysis of Correggio’s Madonna and Child with Infant John the Baptist would show that the Madonna and child are common motifs represented in Christian paintings, as well is the story of John the Baptist. It was known that Saints were usually depicted with personal symbols in order to clearly identify the figure in question. The Madonna and child is a repeated motif through Christian paintings and Madonna (Virgin Mary) is commonly depicted draped in luxurious fabrics in the colours green, red and blue.