Comparing Madonna And Child With Saints Mark And Peter
Madonna and Child with Saints Mark and Peter
When I visited The Walters Art Museum for the first time, I was extremely captivated and pleased. I quickly recognized themes and characteristics of the Baroque time period from my knowledge of it learned in class. After walking around the museum and looking at many Italian works and all the work from the time period we have covered in class, I was drawn to several pieces. I am always impressed by paintings and all the little details put into it. Since it was so hard to choose, Madonna and Child with Saints Mark and Peter was a painting I really enjoyed every detail of and I explored every aspect of the piece.
Madonna and Child with Saints Mark and Peter, was painted with oil on canvas during the Baroque period between 1535-1540. Polidoro da Lanciano painted this piece in Venice, Italy. This piece stood out to me as Baroque art because of many characteristics of the work. The movement of Mary and the Saints with their twisting bodies, the sharp contrast in colors, drapery in the clothing, and the emotion portrayed are just some characteristics of Baroque art. The interaction between …show more content…
Another part of the work that stood out to me was the realism in the people and their faces and poses. The piece shows expensive clothes and a scenic background. Painting of fabric always impresses me. It is so difficult to make fabric look realistic especially when it is clothes on a person’s body. The use of shading and color makes it easy to tell where the legs and arms are. I also enjoyed Madonna and Child with Saints Mark and Peter because of the infant. Many Madonna and Childs made the infant distorted and it usually did not resemble a baby, but a man on a child’s body instead. In this piece I believe Polidoro da Lanciano did a better job painting the child. It makes the piece more
When I visited The Walters Art Museum for the first time, I was extremely captivated and pleased. I quickly recognized themes and characteristics of the Baroque time period from my knowledge of it learned in class. After walking around the museum and looking at many Italian works and all the work from the time period we have covered in class, I was drawn to several pieces. I am always impressed by paintings and all the little details put into it. Since it was so hard to choose, Madonna and Child with Saints Mark and Peter was a painting I really enjoyed every detail of and I explored every aspect of the piece.
Madonna and Child with Saints Mark and Peter, was painted with oil on canvas during the Baroque period between 1535-1540. Polidoro da Lanciano painted this piece in Venice, Italy. This piece stood out to me as Baroque art because of many characteristics of the work. The movement of Mary and the Saints with their twisting bodies, the sharp contrast in colors, drapery in the clothing, and the emotion portrayed are just some characteristics of Baroque art. The interaction between …show more content…
Another part of the work that stood out to me was the realism in the people and their faces and poses. The piece shows expensive clothes and a scenic background. Painting of fabric always impresses me. It is so difficult to make fabric look realistic especially when it is clothes on a person’s body. The use of shading and color makes it easy to tell where the legs and arms are. I also enjoyed Madonna and Child with Saints Mark and Peter because of the infant. Many Madonna and Childs made the infant distorted and it usually did not resemble a baby, but a man on a child’s body instead. In this piece I believe Polidoro da Lanciano did a better job painting the child. It makes the piece more