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Comparison Between Pompeo Batoni's Allegory Peace And War

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Pompeo Girolamo Batoni was born on January. 25, 1708 in Lucca, Italy, and died February. 04, 1787 in Rome, Italy, at the age of 79. Pompeo Girolamo Batoni was recognized as an Italian painter who mainly exhibited a firm practical expertise in many of his portrait masterpieces as well as in his symbolic and mythical illustrations. The “Allegory Peace and War”, by Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, this astonishing work of art demonstrates war characterized as Mars, a roman warrior dressed in a robust, silver armour along with his helmet on, and a sword drawn out in which Mars appears to be rushing into a battle. However, peace is portrayed as Venus a young beautiful and reserved female, who appears to be restraining Mars with one hand while moderately pressing back Mars sword that is in his right hand, meanwhile Venus …show more content…

In the “Allegory Peace and War” painting, line is used throughout Pompeo Girolamo Batoni’s artwork using various marks, outlines, and implied lines. For instance, looking very carefully the human eye can see in the sky there are vertical, straight, thin, long lines. Pompeo Girolamo Batoni’s painting contains geometric shapes as well as free-form shapes, for example, geometric shapes that are presented are a circle, rectangle, triangle and for free-form shapes are the olive branch, the clouds in the sky, and the two characters painted in the painting. The artist Pompeo Girolamo Batoni uses hue such as red, yellow, blue, green throughout the painting. The intensity in this painting shows a lot of strength by red referring blood, and white signifying peace. Pompeo Girolamo Batoni’s painting comprises value, for example the roman warrior and the beautiful woman are very light up with more color in the picture making them standout more from the painting, rather than the background it’s dark and doesn’t carry much bright

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