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Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino) (Italian, Brescia ca. 1498–1554 Brescia) HA 112 Name: yuchen zhao This painting is from Alessandro Bonvicino, which is be printed before his death. This painting is painted in high Renaissance time. The Christ is in the center of the painting, and hold by 3 others figures. The composition of this painting is central composition, which is popular in Renaissance time. This painting is a religion painting, which is, comes from the religion’s story. The store of this painting is about the members would have meditated on the moments following Christ’s death, when he was still surrounded by his followers, and thought of the meaning of the inscription, “Christ became obedient even unto death.” But the clothes on the figures is contemporary clothes of that time. The background in the painting is landscape, which is not in the city. And there are three crosses in the far away hilltop. The color and light of the landscape is dark and during the sunset, which match the sad emotion of the time the painting want to show, and also gives the viewer the feeling. But in the front, there is a light on the Christ’s body. It makes the main figure has more contest and different from others. Even the body of the Christ is white and grey, head falling forward awkwardly, and right foot displayed with its wound, which shows he already dead. The lightness gives us the different from the main figures to landscape and the people on the back of the 4 figure in the from and under the light. The color of this painting is dark and shows the sad feeling Christ’s death. The color of the clothes on the figures in the painting is bright and colorful compare to Christ grey. During the Renaissance in Italy there was a law that all prostitutes, or harlots, were to wear the color yellow. The color red was associated with high social status and royalty. Which are specially be showed in the Renaissance time. Also the draper of the

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