Madonna And St. Jerome

I went to the Dallas Art of Museum on November 26, 2016, at 1:45 pm, which is located in Dallas, TX. I saw many different paintings in the art gallery. Among them, my favorite artwork was “Madonna and Child and St. Jerome”, which was created by Il Garofalo (1481-1559). This artwork was painted in 15th century. I could not take off my eyes from this painting as it was very beautiful and attractive to me. This painting was one of the famous artworks in the history of European Art, and it was termed as an oil on panel.
In this artwork, Garofalo has drawn the pictures of Madonna and her baby with Saint Jerome. Madonna is carrying her baby and Saint Jerome is holding a book in his right hand. The child is pointing his finger towards the book and Jerome is …show more content…
The window in the painting is not completely covered by the curtain and the open spaces on both right and left sides of the window shows the beauty of the nature. Those open spaces acts as the source of light in this artwork. This painting has both variety and unity. Unity lies in the color, which is the primary color blue. The clothes of the Madonna, sky, and the mountains are painted with blue color. Also, primary color red is utilized in the dresses of both Madonna and Jerome. Moreover, there is great variety in this work between shapes, colors, and lines. For instance, there are many organic shapes scattered over the painting such as the shapes of human beings, trees, and lion. Trees are present on the background of the painting, which can be seen on the both left and right sides of the painting. Similarly, lion is drawn on the lower right side of the painting and is painted with secondary color brown. Different kinds of colors are used in this painting such as secondary color green on the tress, and dark brown color in the curtains. The artist has utilized geometrical shapes to draw the