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Caravaggio and David
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Comparing and contrasting two artists as talented as Caravaggio and David is not an easy feat. Each artist was known for doing extraordinary things in their time. Both their techniques and styles will live on in the art world forever. Caravaggio and David both have a distinct style that holds them apart from other painters. Each had there own way of representing the subject to the fullest. In this essay I will compare and contrast four paintings Caravaggio’s the calling of Saint Matthew and the Martyrdom of St. Matthew and David’s The Death of Socrates and the Death of Marat. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the artist, Michelangelo Merisi (called Caravaggio), began to paint in a manner that was at once new and exciting as well as echoing the best of the Renaissance Masters who had come before. Few artists in history have exercised as extraordinary an influence as this tempestuous and short-lived painter. Jacques-Louis David was a French painter. He was a supporter of the French Revolution and one of the leading figures of Neoclassicism. David spent six years in Rome. It was during this period (1775-81), that he abandoned the grand manner of his early work, with its Baroque use of lighting and composition for a stark, highly finished and morally didactic style. This was influenced by the ideas then current in Rome (Winckelmann) and by artists such as Hamilton who were already experimenting with a neoclassical idiom. During the French Revolution, David played an active role both artistically he reorganized the Académe and produced numerous and spectacular propaganda exercises - and politically, as an avid supporter of Robespierre, who voted for the execution of the king.
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