Compare Contrast Venetian Renaissance Art Versus Roman Florentine Art Example For Students

Compare Contrast: Venetian Renaissance Art Versus Roman Florentine Art Venetian Art could be described as Painterly. Soft edges and strong mark making approach with impasto paint and a flurry of brushwork. The softer fluffier brushwork became known as poesie or visual poetry grew more popular in the Baroque Rococo periods that followed. Roman Florentine Painting could be characterized by the use of precise contours separated delineated elements and techniques like Diseno, as employed by Michelangelo. The themes and thinking behind Roman Florentine Painting focused mainly on intellectual matters, mathematical and philosophical perspectives on Art. Venetian Art focused mainly on nature- capturing light and painterly approaches Roman Florentine art often had compositions based on architectural shapes While Venetian Art was set in more outdoor rural (pastoral) settings, less architectural composition Roman Florentine Art was heavily influenced by Brunelleschis invention of perspective the writings of Vitruvius Alberti on the correct classical proportions of buildings figures Venetian art was more influenced by Northern Rennaissances technical innovations They used oil paint more used the camera obscura to observe the scene project the light. The venetians, however invented canvas which better suited the damper climate than fresco. Venetian art had a greater pan-European influence on later developments in art e.g. Impressionism and the focus on capturing the effects of light mark making Venetians painted on canvas which was portable could be traded or looted e.g. Napoleon brought many masterpieces to France when he invaded Northern Italy. The many Northern Italian artworks displayed in The Louvre proved to be very influential on French 19th 20th century painting Roman Florentine Early Renaissance Art employed stony and pietra serena colors in figure painting, sculpture architecture. Later in the High Renaissance artists like Raphael used complimentary colors e.g. red and green and orange and blue in Madonna of The Meadow Venetian painters like Titian painted from dark to light on dark backgrounds, using warm red, orange and yellow tones on darker backgrounds to create depth and drama. Venetian painters also juxtaposed nude female figures with clothed figures in the same scene e.g. Venus of Urbino by Titian. This, the indoor contemporary setting renders the nudity less innocent more erotic. This would later be copied by artists in France in the 19th 20th centuries. Manet mocked this voyeurism in his painting Dejuner sur lHerbe (1862,1863) which outraged those who first saw it in the Salon des Refusees. It is now seen as the first work of art about art.