The Veil Of Veronica Analysis

Domenico Fetti was born in Rome in 1589. His father was a painter as well; growing up with an artistic father sparked his artistic nature (Fetti, Domenico). Fetti adopted a style that illustrated religious stories. While in Rome, c.1618/1622 using oil on a panel, Domenico Fetti created the painting The Veil of Veronica. In this painting, the artist uses neutral colors, the primary color red, emphasis and visual texture to convey a sense of realism and suffrage, thus representing the medieval legend of the veil.
Seen, in this painting is a dark black background with a wooden post. Hanging from the wooden post is a long, white cloth like fabric. The white cloth like fabric has a texture of folds and fringes. In the center of the white cloth fabric there is the face of Christ. Christ has long brown/rust color hair, with a rust/brown color stick woven head band. The stick woven head band has a texture of rough, sharp sticks. In the middle of Christ’s face and head band is a silver nail, nailed through his flesh, causing red color blood to drip down his face.
Fetti’s use of visual elements of art illustrates to the viewers the anguish and destress Christ felt during that time. He used actual lines in this painting to create the face of Christ. Geometric shapes such as rectangle to create the cloth/sheet and …show more content…
To communicating the medieval legend, Conceptual Unity was used by illustrating the cloth and Christ’s face painted on the cloth. In this painting the veil shows a sense of motion within its deep folds and creases. With the use of contrast and the primary color red dripping, focuses the viewers gaze to Christ’s face. Asymmetrical Balance is also seen in this painting, visually with the balance of the small darker values and shades of Christ’s face to the large lighter values of the cloth. Christ’s face is placed in a distance compared to the large white cloth indicating that the face is very