assignment # 4 part 2

The baroque and the renaissance period have different types of painting styles. You could distinguish the baroque from the renaissance by the different types of quality and elements which they use to express their perspective. The baroque style is very different from the renaissance you can tell the difference between the two in various ways. The Baroque style it is more of dark colors in the background has directed light which makes it have a strong contrast to the painting which captures your attention. The Baroque paintings show energy, feeling and scale in the paintings that sometimes you feel that you are there in person.  In the Baroque also uses vivid realism by using sharp diagonals and foreshortening, therefore these paintings are usually used for personal and mystical types of faith. On the other hand renaissance they were challenged by humanism which made them rediscover the arts of Rome and Greece. There were two different types of painting styles that were done in the renaissance period which are Gothic style and Italian renaissance. The renaissance used other types of mean to capture the viewers’ attention by using psychic lines, realism, space, implied space and linear perspective. In the renaissance paintings they also use warm colors and also show human emotions in the paintings. This is the period where they rediscovered realism and started to depict people feelings in the paintings more, which you were able to see more human emotions in the painting.
 

This is painting “Fra Carnevale” by Bartolomeo De Giovanni Corradini which is made by tempera and oil on wood. The painting itself is 57x 37 7/8 inches which is pretty  big and shows how much work and detail he put in the painting. The painting is about Madonna giving birth to her son in contemporary terms, in the background of the painting you could see the newborn baby is bathed by the midwives. In the painting you could see the woman in the front talking and greeting each other. This a perfect example of a renaissance painting because in the painting you see different colors you see the different qualities and styles that were used to make this painting. The way you could identify this painting from the renaissance is by looking at the painting and you could see linear perspective and also the vanishing point. If you look at the tile on the ceiling it goes straight to the baby and it vanishes. You could also see depth and space how everything looks to be far away and in the foreground is closer to you.

The Baroque painting “Merry Company on a Terrace” by Jan Steen which is oil on canvas the painting size is 141 x 131.4cm which is more like a normal size. The painting is about a waitress and she is holding a glass which makes it look sexually suggestive and she is so familiar with the musician but he has more to offer the waitress. This is painting you tell that it is Baroque because the painting has a lot of dark colors in the background and you could that light is trying to come in from the right side. The waitress is in the middle of the painting which draws your attention to her and the symbols around her. The meaning of the painting is that these people are spoiled and that there should be child rearing and garden of love and combined it into an original story.