Renaissance vs Baroque

The Renaissance and the Baroque period were the two distinct periods in history that influence people’s view of modern art and well develop masterpieces. The Renaissance began in the late 14^th to 16^th centuries. The Renaissance was named “Rebirth” that began to open a new era after Europe’s dark period call the “Dark Age” that lasted from the 5^th to the 15^th centuries. The Renaissance began to bring cultural movement such as philosophical, literary, artistic and also visual art that provide focus on humanism. The Baroque period began in the 17^th and 18^th centuries that followed Renaissance techniques and moved on towards a whole new level that created visual art by showing a great dramatic feeling. What makes the Renaissance and Baroque period unique difference is that the Renaissance period helped regained the knowledge form classic Roman and Greek culture and the Baroque period helped to bring an even greater style that presented drama and introduced light and dark scale.

The first painting “Madonna and Child” was created during the Renaissance period around 1457- 1504 by an Italian painter named Filippino Lippi.

The painting was made of tempera, oil and gold on wood. This work reveals a woman named Virgin Mary who is taking a hold of a child named Jesus Christ. While the woman grabs onto him, the baby is also reading some sort of book that is describe as The Bible that exercises his mind. On top of the woman and child there appear to be round luminous circles and the background contain dark shadows and decent amount of detail. The artist also provides objects that includes textile such as a cassone, a small fruit, the candlestick and finally the outside window that can be seen with detailed landscape on left side.  The colors in this painting are deeply rich with bright light seen on the lefts side and cool color that can be seen with in the cloths of Mary that brought more still life into this painting 

 

 

The second is painting “The Denial of Saint Peter” was painted by an Italian painter name Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) and was date it around 1570 -1610 during the Baroque period. The painting shows a man name Peter who denies knowing Jesus Christ. A woman accuses him of being one of the followers of Jesus Christ and solider approaches while it seems that he is attempting to arrest peter. In this painting this shows a dramatic scene where we can see both the solider and the woman are point fingers of exposing peter. Peter denies three time of knowing Jesus and also denies of being one of the followers. As we can see, peter looks confusing and unaware the existence and the relationship with Jesus. By doing so, peter hopefully that the solider would believe him as Jesus himself foretold it. The painting was color by using oil paint and this allow to created a dramatic effect by introducing on bright and dark colors that provide the scene taken from a dark night. For example Highlight can be seen towered the left where the brightness of the solider armor gear can be seen on one side and the other side heavy shadow can be seen on the right where his body is swallowed up by the darkness by looking towards the woman and peter.