For my compare and contrast essay, the artworks I picked are “Pieta” by Titian and “Lamentation” by Giotto Di Bondone. Titian was born in Cadore, Italy in 1485 and died in 1576. He was an Italian painter during the Renaissance who painted works for Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Pope Paul III, and King Philip II of Spain. Titian was a leading Italian painter that everyone admired. Most of Titian’s portraits displayed fresco, equally skillful landscape backgrounds, mythological, and religious subjects. His interest in color is what made him stand out from other artists. The mastering use of paint and making his brushwork much bolder and looser is what ranked him the highest favorable artist by so many people during the Renaissance. Titian was
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The figures in Giotto’s painting are shown as individuals within a shallow, stagelike space, and their expressions portray personal feelings of grief like as the expressions shown on the individuals in Titian’s painting “Pieta”. The “Lamentation” painting portray extreme sadness as Christ ends his suffering, and his supporters are mourning as Christ is passing away. Likewise to the portrait “Piete”, the two recognized people in both of the paintings are Virgin Mary who is holding Christ's head, and Mary Magdalene who is by Christ's feet. However, the differences between the two remarkable portrait of Jesus Christ, Virgin Mary, and Mary Magdalene are the background, the color chosen, the purpose of the astonishing paintings, the individuals they chose to add and how they should paint them. In Giotto’s painting, he uses golden halos to bring out the faces of Christ's supporters and the Angels in heaven. All of the face expressions of Christ's supporters are shown in a soothing, tender, and very humanistic way, while the face expressions of the Angels are very dramatic. To elevate the dramatic facial expression in the Angels, some of the contours of their bodies are placed in positions associated with grief or in sharp point positions to indicate pain. The positioning of a lot of the people scrunched down on the ground symbolizes the earthliness of the event and the human relationship with the Earth. The angels flying in the sky help to symbolize the ascent from Heaven. He also displays the tree of knowledge of good and evil on the mountain that directs our gaze to Mary and Christ. The portrait reveals that heaven and Earth are joined together for the mourning of Christ’s death. The soft pastel colors are fairly typical of fresco painting. For instance, the blue used for the sky is faded to make it look like the actual sky’s on Earth. The humans are wearing draping clothing that
The figures in Giotto’s painting are shown as individuals within a shallow, stagelike space, and their expressions portray personal feelings of grief like as the expressions shown on the individuals in Titian’s painting “Pieta”. The “Lamentation” painting portray extreme sadness as Christ ends his suffering, and his supporters are mourning as Christ is passing away. Likewise to the portrait “Piete”, the two recognized people in both of the paintings are Virgin Mary who is holding Christ's head, and Mary Magdalene who is by Christ's feet. However, the differences between the two remarkable portrait of Jesus Christ, Virgin Mary, and Mary Magdalene are the background, the color chosen, the purpose of the astonishing paintings, the individuals they chose to add and how they should paint them. In Giotto’s painting, he uses golden halos to bring out the faces of Christ's supporters and the Angels in heaven. All of the face expressions of Christ's supporters are shown in a soothing, tender, and very humanistic way, while the face expressions of the Angels are very dramatic. To elevate the dramatic facial expression in the Angels, some of the contours of their bodies are placed in positions associated with grief or in sharp point positions to indicate pain. The positioning of a lot of the people scrunched down on the ground symbolizes the earthliness of the event and the human relationship with the Earth. The angels flying in the sky help to symbolize the ascent from Heaven. He also displays the tree of knowledge of good and evil on the mountain that directs our gaze to Mary and Christ. The portrait reveals that heaven and Earth are joined together for the mourning of Christ’s death. The soft pastel colors are fairly typical of fresco painting. For instance, the blue used for the sky is faded to make it look like the actual sky’s on Earth. The humans are wearing draping clothing that