Assignment #3

Before the renaissance, people were more focused on the god or related to religious factors because the church had all the authority and governed the country. However, as the war of crusaders kept losing the war, the Catholic Church started lose their power.  Hence, people tried to escape from the church by restoring the ideas of ancient Greek and Rome.  They started to concentrate more on human beings rather than god or religions and also human feelings. This picture is one of Botticelli’s works.  In the painting, everyone can find out that human figures are described very nicely and beautifully compared to medieval age paintings.
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The qualities of Van Eyck’s paintings are that he used a style of a profound ability to mimic reality and there are lots of implied meanings of objects.  He was an oil-based painter that he was able to capture rich colors and subtle changes in textures and surfaces.

This picture is “The Calling of St. Matthew” by Caravaggio. The painting is very realistic because in Baroque people cared about the realistic of appearance. The person who points the finger to someone else is Jesus and the person who bow down his head is Matthew. Moreover, drawing the objects as the way we see was the main point in Baroque.