Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael both formed the iconic dyad of the epitome of Renaissance art. In Leonardo da Vinci’s Madonna of the Rocks as well as Raphael’s rendition of da Vinci’s painting Madonna in the Meadow, a religious scene is depicted with Madonna gazes towards an exchange between Saint John and Jesus Christ in infantry as she realizes the grave future that Christ faces. While both paintings feature the same biblical figures in similar fashion, Raphael’s rendering takes on a brighter and lighter tonality and clearer disposition unlike Da Vinci’s more sullen, hazy, and darker painting. Nonetheless, both paintings portray an air of spirituality.
Acclaimed to be quite renowned (Gardner 630), Leonardo …show more content…
It is a piece “at the Church of Santissima Annunziata”(Gardner 630).Created in 1505, it showcases the Virgin Mary, a figure of great focus with her eye-catching red dress, dark blue robe with gold embroidery, and her dainty blonde hair up in a fashionable updo. Even though her appearance seems quite austere, she seems to be invoking an atmosphere of beauty and grace and she kneels to witness the important interaction between Saint John and Jesus Christ as small infants. Saint John and Jesus Christ are mischievously playing around with Saint’ John’s cross-shaped staff as if they don’t realize the significance of such a religious icon. Only the Virgin Mary is suspected to know the repercussions of such a feat as she stares at the two individuals in such a melancholy facial expression. She seems to be the only person of intuition. Both infants are nude, but Saint John adorns a brown cloth wrapped around his pudgy body. All figures in the painting have faint golden halos around their heads, signifying their holiness. While these figures take up space in the foreground in a pyramidal composition, greenery surrounds them in the background. The figures are enveloped in a state of utter nature-plants spurting off the ground, the fluffy trees employed in the distance, the grassy hills, so much so that the small town pictured in the background seems to have green hues. The sky in the background takes on a muted blue-grayish tonality with faded white clouds. To match the holiness of these important religious figures, the background seems to act to the illusion of a beautiful landscape, a pastoral scene of “Eden” to suit. The lines are more sharper in comparison to Da Vinci’s atmospheric painting, and so a more crisp centerfold focus
Acclaimed to be quite renowned (Gardner 630), Leonardo …show more content…
It is a piece “at the Church of Santissima Annunziata”(Gardner 630).Created in 1505, it showcases the Virgin Mary, a figure of great focus with her eye-catching red dress, dark blue robe with gold embroidery, and her dainty blonde hair up in a fashionable updo. Even though her appearance seems quite austere, she seems to be invoking an atmosphere of beauty and grace and she kneels to witness the important interaction between Saint John and Jesus Christ as small infants. Saint John and Jesus Christ are mischievously playing around with Saint’ John’s cross-shaped staff as if they don’t realize the significance of such a religious icon. Only the Virgin Mary is suspected to know the repercussions of such a feat as she stares at the two individuals in such a melancholy facial expression. She seems to be the only person of intuition. Both infants are nude, but Saint John adorns a brown cloth wrapped around his pudgy body. All figures in the painting have faint golden halos around their heads, signifying their holiness. While these figures take up space in the foreground in a pyramidal composition, greenery surrounds them in the background. The figures are enveloped in a state of utter nature-plants spurting off the ground, the fluffy trees employed in the distance, the grassy hills, so much so that the small town pictured in the background seems to have green hues. The sky in the background takes on a muted blue-grayish tonality with faded white clouds. To match the holiness of these important religious figures, the background seems to act to the illusion of a beautiful landscape, a pastoral scene of “Eden” to suit. The lines are more sharper in comparison to Da Vinci’s atmospheric painting, and so a more crisp centerfold focus