Timeline
The Maesta Masaccio Simone Marti (1315) Tribute Money (1420’s)
1300 C.E. Fra Angelico Raphael 1600 C.E. The Deposition (1434) The School of Athens (1509)
Theme: These paintings seem to have a lot going on and they are either very bright or very dark. They are all painted within the same time period therefore the painters shared some of the same ideas.
The paintings I have selected are all within the same theme I have chosen. Obviously the paintings all painted within the time and age of the renaissance. The painters during this time came up with their own ideas and new ways to paint their work. Therefore some of the painters share some of the same ideas. The first thing I am going to talk about is that the lighting. The lighting is one of the more important things with any painting during the renaissance. The painters didn’t all have just one light background and then an event or person in the middle. They seemed to have either a dark background which gives you almost a bad feeling about the painting, or a light background which kind of lifted your spirit about the painting. The darker paintings weren’t always just completely dark either, they had maybe some light coming in from behind the painting, or the weather was cloudy and stormy, which you could tell by the way the sky was and how much lighter the shadows were from any other sunny day. In the lighter paintings, the sky seems to have maybe some fluffy, pure white clouds with bright blue sky. The paintings light seemed to come from more of a natural light that beamed throughout the whole entire painting. Another key feature about the paintings is that there seems to be a lot