Comparison of Perugino and Caravaggio
The artists of the Baroque had a remarkably different style than artists of the Renaissance due to their different approach to form, space, and composition. This extreme differentiation in style resulted in a very different treatment of narrative. Perhaps this drastic stylistic difference between the Renaissance and Baroque in their treatment of form, space, and composition and how these characteristics effect the narrative of a painting cannot be seen more than in comparing Perugino's Christ Delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to St. Peter from the Early Renaissance to Caravaggio's Conversion of St. Paul from the Baroque.Perugino was one of the greatest masters of the Early Renaissance whose style ischaracterized by the Renaissance ideals of purity, simplicity, and exceptional symmetry of composition. His approach to form in Christ Delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to St.Peter was very linear. He outlined all the figures with a black line giving them a sense of stability, permanence, and power in their environment, but restricting the figures' sense of movement. In fact, the figures seem to not move at all, but rather are merely locked at a specific moment in time by their rigid outline. Perugino's approach to the figures'themsel
variety of forms, gradual recession of space, and tenebrism create heightened mystery and that emotional narrative. Perugino's art was the art of classical persuasion, but Caravaggio's art was the art of heightened persuasion because it persuaded the emotions. painting even though the event represented in the painting took place long before the Roman Empire. The center temple that occupies the background has a vanishing point running through its doorway and if it weren't for this illusionistic technique, the painting would be very two-dimensional. The combination of the vanishing point with three well-defined planes interlocks both two-dimensional and three-dimensional space, as well as organizing the action in the painting systematically.Perugino's approach to composition was, keeping conventional with the Renaissance style, also very rational and orderly. He employed the Early Renaissance compositional triangle giving clarity, static balance, and symmetrical order to the painting. At the base of the triangle, the central figures of Christ and Saint Peter are placed to give clarity to the subject matter. The static, straight lines used in his overall composition do not make the eye move from place to place, but rather makes the eye look at each object itself, see how it relates to the other objects around it, and then see how all the separate figures come together and create harmony. The overall clarity of the form, space, and composition that Perugino presents in this painting gives an overall clarity of narrative. In Renaissance art, the aim was the emotional interest to the painting, rather than classical understanding.Rather than organizing space in simple planes like Perugino, Caravaggio does not apply planes to his work. Instead, he creates a receding effect in which planes gradually recede in to the distance. Again, this adds interest and mystery to the painting.He creates receding space by an implied vanishing point rather tha
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