Week of April 1- Renaissance & Baroque

During the Baroque period, which ran from 1600 to about 1750. Most artists used Renaissance technique to move art to a more dramatic and emotion style. The Baroque period had various styles that shows great energy and dramatic use of light, scale and composition. Many of the characteristic  that Baroque style promoted by the Roman Catholic Church's response to the Protestant Reformation. This is a painting of ''The Conversion of Saint Paul'' By Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. This painting was made around 1600 to 1601 in Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, Italy. Caravaggio uses dramatic painting by using light and strong contrasts. This makes viewers feel the intensity of the painting.  The painting shows Paul in a Roman dress pushed to the ground, this makes viewers feel like we are right there. 

Lamentation of the Death of Christ is a High Middle Ages fresco painting by Italian painter Giotto di Bondone. This painting shows the body of Christ also Christ's supporters, and the Angels in heaven after he had been crucified. This was around C. 1305 Italians believed they were responsible for the rebirth of the glory of ancient Greece.  The Renaissance was a period of new and renewed understanding. New values and technology brought a new style in art around the fourteen century. Art of the Renaissance started to change in northern  and southern Europe. The reason this happened is because the people of the two region had different attitude and experience. Painter Giotto di Bondone showed a new beginning of humanist art. He took a step back from abstract by portraying feelings and physical nature. Giotto di Bondone brought light, space and a sense of realism to painting. In addition in Lamentation Giotto shoes a spiritual reality.