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Art History
There are many different works of art that have different stylistic periods.
They all vary by color, style, formal qualities and subject matter. The Visitation by Rembrandt Hermensz van Rijn and Still Life with Fruit, Vegetable and Dead Game by Frans Snyders, are the two pieces of art that will be further discussed in this paper. In both of these works of art, conventions of the Baroque Style are recognizable. Baroque is a seventeenth-century style of European art characterized by ornamentation, curved lines, irregularity of form, dramatic lighting and color, and exaggerated gestures. The cultural and historic contents of these two pieces of art are closely related. Both Rembrandt and Snyders worked in the Baroque stylistic period, which took place in Europe.
The Visitation is a painting from 1640 by a Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn. "The uniqueness of Rembrandt's Visitation resides both in the face that it is the artist's only rendition of the subject and in its striking representation of the event." Everything in the picture stresses the emotions between Mary and her cousin Elizabeth. A golden light is seen over the composition, which focuses attention on the center of the action and is the only cl
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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