Renaissance and Baroque Styles Assignment# 3

 The Renaissance was a period that started in 1400-1550. This period started in Europe as the religious fervor of the middle Ages, where this born with new logical thoughts, and the new philosophy of literacy and artistic movement called humanism. The renaissance came with new intellectual and scientific inquiries of the classical culture of Greece and Rome. The name of Renaissance means “Rebirth” where the interest of art and ideas was revived from the classical Greeks and Romans. The art of the renaissance spread in two different regions of Europe, the Northern and southern Europe which had different ways of express their attitudes and experiences. The renaissance art bring the human and divine together as one. During this period we see that paints have shading and shadows, and colors are richer. Much more the Illusion of depth space was started to born in this era. 

In this image called “Madonna and Child” by Filippino Lippi created in 1483-84 we can see how the Virgin Mary is grabbing Jesus Christ, while Christ is reading a bible. Also we can see how Lippi enhance the painting with rich colors with red and blue in Madonna dress. We can also see how this paint is asymmetrically balanced between the outside of the window and Madonna giving us a depth illusion with the outside. Moreover, we can see how real it feels the shadow of the lamp in the back. Theirs a linear perspective that focus all the attention to baby Jesus. We see a half pomegranate which symbolized the fertility and abundance.

In here we can see an Sketch made by me of the image that is below representing the Renaissance period.

Baroque

During the baroque period that ran from 1550-1700, artists used the renaissance techniques to move the art in the direction of drama, emotion and splendor. In this period the paintings were really dramatic and had a high contrast of dark colors. Also, on the baroque we see more subject matter where paintings were very ornate and very big. Figures have more volume on it and we can appreciate the direction of light.

In this image called "Midas Washing at the source of the Pactolus" by Bartolomeo Manfredi created in 1617-19. This painting make the viewer feel the sadness of Midas washing his feet in the river. According to a Greek legend, Midas was granted his wish that what he touched would turn into gold. The wish proved disastrous as he could not eat. And he was instructed to wash himself in the river Pactolus. We can see how the water turn into gold while he is washing his feet. In this paint we can see a black background in the back and the direction of light that hits Midas from Left to right.

 The volume of this painting makes the viewer feel the reality of this. This paint is not very ornate, but is very big. Just by looking the head of Midas we can see that there’s a crown making us infer that he was a King. His face expression looks very sad making the viewer feel this emotion one to one.

Here there's a sketch made by me from the image on top representing the Baroque period.