Caravaggio and Vermeer
One of the most influential painters during the sixteenth century, Michelangelo Merisi, mastered his view of light and dark to build on his artistic ability. Michelangelo Merisi, otherwise known as Caravaggio, was an artist based off of revolutionary paintings and public scandal, started his career in Rome in 1593 (Sayre 701). Equivalent to most musical composers during the Baroque era, Caravaggio was supported by a patron.
To start his career as an artist, Caravaggio painted pictures for the church of the French community, but he focused on events that are more realistic to the people of the church. Instead of the paintings looking as if they are animated, the people from the church could visualize themselves in the setting that Caravaggio developed. In each painting, depending on what Caravaggio painted, Caravaggio used the setting of the painting to inspect the best way to incorporate light into the painting.
In Figure 21.15, Caravaggio uses the element of light to bring his painting, Bacchus, to life (Sayre 705). Caravaggio uses the advantage from light started at the left side of his painting, which shows the definition of the guy’s muscles and light aids the emotional reflection of seriousness in the painting. …show more content…
Vermeer doesn’t focus on light, like Caravaggio, but his focal point in his paintings are “celebrating the material reality of Dutch life” (Sayre 726). Unfortunately, Vermeer wasn’t as famous as Caravaggio. Vermeer’s painting was forgotten until the middle of the nineteenth century (Sayre 727). One of Vermeer’s painting, The Little Street, is based off of the house that most people live in and show servants inside of the doorways of the house on the little street. This painting reflects the simplistic, peaceful, and realistic reality of everyday life for a
One of the most influential painters during the sixteenth century, Michelangelo Merisi, mastered his view of light and dark to build on his artistic ability. Michelangelo Merisi, otherwise known as Caravaggio, was an artist based off of revolutionary paintings and public scandal, started his career in Rome in 1593 (Sayre 701). Equivalent to most musical composers during the Baroque era, Caravaggio was supported by a patron.
To start his career as an artist, Caravaggio painted pictures for the church of the French community, but he focused on events that are more realistic to the people of the church. Instead of the paintings looking as if they are animated, the people from the church could visualize themselves in the setting that Caravaggio developed. In each painting, depending on what Caravaggio painted, Caravaggio used the setting of the painting to inspect the best way to incorporate light into the painting.
In Figure 21.15, Caravaggio uses the element of light to bring his painting, Bacchus, to life (Sayre 705). Caravaggio uses the advantage from light started at the left side of his painting, which shows the definition of the guy’s muscles and light aids the emotional reflection of seriousness in the painting. …show more content…
Vermeer doesn’t focus on light, like Caravaggio, but his focal point in his paintings are “celebrating the material reality of Dutch life” (Sayre 726). Unfortunately, Vermeer wasn’t as famous as Caravaggio. Vermeer’s painting was forgotten until the middle of the nineteenth century (Sayre 727). One of Vermeer’s painting, The Little Street, is based off of the house that most people live in and show servants inside of the doorways of the house on the little street. This painting reflects the simplistic, peaceful, and realistic reality of everyday life for a