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Comparing Enthroned Madonna And Child

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In the Madonna and Child, Mary wears a dark red robe and a navy cloak with decoration of golden lace. The navy cloak makes her sticking out of the golden background. Because color of Mary’s cloak is too dark, it is difficult to see the detail of the drapery which makes figure looks flatter than the Enthroned Madonna and Child. Mary dresses similar in these two painting, but Mary in the Enthroned Madonna and Child dresses a lighter blue cloak that using shadow to heighten contrast and relief to express a realistic figure. Jesus is not nude in the Madonna and Child, but wears a pink robe with his left shoulder showing. Pink is a lighter color of red, which Jesus’s pink robe represents his young age. Comparing two paintings, the Enthroned Madonna and Child has a lighter hue of clothing which can help artist add more detail on the drapery. Due to Masaccio used more shadow to express the wrinkle, Enthroned Madonna and Child is more realistic than Madonna and Child. Realism is a symbol of the …show more content…

The figures in Enthroned Madonna and Child are round faces. Their outer canthus are little ptosis. They do have a high cheekbone and nose. The soft line and temperate shadow make the figures realistic and mercy. However, the figures in Madonna and Child are not realistic like Enthroned Madonna and Child. Duccio painted a high level of the shadow around the figures’ noses, so all of them have a prominent nose. They have elliptic faces and small eyes which position is higher than normal level and makes it looks not real. That is to say. They do not have a good proportion of the five sense of organs. All of these reason makes Madonna and Child not realistic as Enthroned Madonna and Child. However, these changes are the progress to the realism. The Enthroned Madonna and Child belongs to period of Early Renaissance, which is showing the trend of

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