Italian renaissance artists Santi
di Tito’s Madonna and Child with Saint John
the Baptist and Mirabello Carabori’s The
Madonna and Child with Saints Anne and the Infant John the Baptist exhibit
many similarities. Sharing such obvious qualities as their religious subject
manner they both utilize different basic techniques to convey different
emotions. Tito’s work displays vertical placement of it’s subjects,
leading your eye from Maddona, down to the children, and finally on the lamb a
symbol of purity. Tito plays strongly
off of atmospheric perspective, drawing the eye to the naturalism
of its foreground subjects. These characters are shown in a bright lighting
and playful delicate manner to convey a message of hope and purity.
On the other hand Carabori’s composition
is a horizontal placement of subjects- drawing your eye across the page
and giving the characters a cold distance to each other. Carabori uses a darker
color scheme in this painting to convey a more sorrowful and idolized message.
Again though, as is common in the renaissance era, the artist showcases his
great decivery skills of perception with a depthfull background using
atmospheric perspective.
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