COMPARE AND CONTRAST ITALIAN (SOUTHERN) RENAISSANCE AND FLEMISH (NORTHERN) RENAISSANCE PAINTINGS

Introduction

Both of the pictures are hundreds of years old, and all they rely on are perceptions and imagination

Main Body

This portray was made by Martin Schongauer who was a German. The picture was made between the years 1485-1490. Looking at the picture it simple looks like a mother taking care of her child. This picture may look simple to those who are just simple viewers and not critical viewers. The picture truly displays how the love of mom is for the child. By looking at the picture closely it gives an idea that probably the child is not in a comfortable position and the mother is trying to calm her child so that he doesn't cry. The motherly love cannot be framed in to words, and so is the situation over here. This picture sh0ws how an individual mother is trying to look after her baby, the strength in the arms of the mother are more than enough to take care of her child. A mother who is the only one, who has full faith on her child, is always ready to fight any trouble that comes as a hurdle in the life of her child. A mother is truly a gift of god and so that gift is very well portrayed in this picture. One dimension of the picture can be taken as that the mother is all alone in the world to take care of her child and for this child she is the mother and father both. The other side of the picture just describes the love and affection of a mother for a child and does not describe whether she is all alone or has a husband. Both of the dimensions of the picture can be taken upon ...