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Essay / Art Comparison - 1199
Artists who focused on the Baroque style of painting had an uncanny ability to display their style more than Renaissance artists. Regarding their different approach to form, space and artwork, the differences in their styles resulted in different descriptions. The Renaissance and Baroque seem to focus on the treatment of space, appearance and color. This unique character affects the description of a table and therefore it cannot be seen. Even more so than comparing Perugino's Christ delivering the keys of the kingdom to St. Peter of the early Renaissance to Caravaggio's St. Paul's exchange of the Baroque style. Perugino was considered one of the best when it comes to early Renaissance style. He was also highly respected and well known during the Renaissance. Renaissance people were very familiar with the principles of wholesomeness, ease and exceptional balance of composition. His approach to forming Christ delivering the keys of the Kingdom to St. Peter was very linear. He outlined all the characters with a black streak giving them an ability of determination, strength and power in their environment, but limiting the characters' sense of movement. In reality, the figures do not appear to move at all, but rather remain frozen at a specific moment by their rigid outline. It highlights the characters in an obvious and homogeneous way, in keeping with the lucid and refined sense of the work of art. His figures are all shielded in a contrapposto position, engaging in lucid conversation with their neighbor, giving a strong sense of classical wisdom. The characters are repeated over and over, like this, to convey a rational response and to show clarity to the viewer. Perugia...... middle of paper ...... mystery of the painting. Caravaggio brought a new existence and a new proximity to the emotional characteristic of painting. He abandoned the rules of Renaissance artists like Perugino who had idealized human and religious facts, he rejected the preciousness of Renaissance theory and put into practice his touching insight in his Conversion of Saint Paul, was perfectly adapted to the objectives of the Catholic Reformation. . For Caravaggio's goal as a Baroque artist was to show the subjects in a touching, narrative and emotional way, and thus achieve an emotional response. Its overall demonstration of dynamic stability, painterly forms, variety of forms, constant collapse of space and tenebrism creates heightened mystery and this moving narrative. Perugino's art was the art of classical influence, but Caravaggio's art was the art of sensitive persuasion because it influenced the emotions..