Northern renaissance mostly focused on religious ideas. They were more concern with reform the church and adopt the path of early Christian church. Jan van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece (closed), Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent and Rogier vander Weyden’s Deposition also show this concept. Also northern renaissance art artist were more realistic than Italian renaissance artists. Their painting didn’t have Greek gods but real people.
The Madonna and Child is a piece that uses many techniques used during the Renaissance period such as one point perspective, balance, use of geometric design, and religious themes. While the Madonna and Child is very different from the first piece of art that I chose to analyze Buddha Seated in Meditation as both works of art use different mediums, come from different historical periods, and have different religious influences the artists both used symmetry and balance and religious themes while completing their works. The colors used by Raphael in this painting are very bright colors. In this particular painting Raphael used primary colors ,this painting is polychromatic in that it uses many different colors. The used of red and green and yellow adds contracts as red and green are on the opposite side of the color wheel.
The renaissance and romanticism period differed on how they approached art. The renaissance period was influenced by literature, philosophy, art, music, politics, science, and religion. They focused on realism and human emotion that was more lifelike. Artists such as Leonardo Di Vinci and Donatello used painting to show human emotions.
Another difference between the two works is that Cimabue painted Mary and the angels with larger fingers and noses and he also used lines to define her clothing. Giotto portrayed Mary as a recognizable figure instead of as an idealized one. He used dark and light contrast in her clothing and
Northern European Literature focused more on the Catholic Church and how to reform the Church’s humanity. Even though they both wanted to see a transformation in the Catholic Church, Northern Europe was more involved with the transformation of
Comparing Northern & Southern Renaissance Works The styles and subject matters of Northern and Italian artists do have their differences when looked at closely. It seems that the greatest explanation for their separate subject matters is the different religions that the Northern and Southern regions believed. For both the North and South of Italy it would not be wrong to suggest that the society that the two halves lived in was dominated by religion. For the North it was Protestantism for the south it was Catholicism. The North faced a more austere and miserable environment which is somewhat represented in their work whereas the south were more focused on bringing out the religious imagery of the Bible in their artists works.
Other artful Renaissance thinking the Mona Lisa portrays is a common person, realism, and perspective. Very different from the Italian Renaissance was the Northern Renaissance. Art in the Northern Renaissance focused more on religion. A well-known artist from the north was Albrecht Dürer- a German painter. His work involved altarpieces, religious works, and self-portraits.
Practices have changed in both religions, yet the Lutheran and Catholic remain present to this day. Since and before Reformation religions have constantly been changing to meet the ethics of the society that typically holds them and must always change in order to keep the people in the religion for personal or political gain. Although the Catholic and Lutheran reforms had many similarities, there were many differences. In contrast, the Lutheran movement did not believe that rituals and traditions would necessarily make one more likely to get into heaven. Great differences were also evident in the beliefs surrounding salvation.
As traditional art forms had become outdates due to industrialization. It seems like the term “modernism” has been a conflicting term in the academic world. This is because the term “modernism” acquires a different scope and penetration in each different academic discipline. The inception of modern music typically located at the close of the 19th century, while to talk modern in English literature is to focus upon a relatively highly influential body of work produced in the first two decades of the 20th century. In the history of art, on the other hand, the student of modernism can expect to run a gamut from the French painting of the 1860s to the American art of a century later and may even be directed as far back as the later 18th century (Modernism, 2003).
Baroque Architecture Characteristics Introduction The Baroque period took the humanist Roman view of Renaissance architecture and showed it in a new rhetorical, theatrical and sculptural fashion they expressed the triumph of absolutist church and state. The main view of Baroque architecture was more concerned about color, light and shade, sculptural values and intensity which could be seen in its characteristics. Baroque is defined periods in literature as well as music; however critics perceived it to be unstructured, over ornamented, theatrical and grotesque. Although many things influenced the Baroque period it was also influenced by religion as well as the countries politics. Architects were interested in the space of the unfolding universe as well as the workings of the mind and attempted to portray passions of the soul through facial expressions.