I. Introduction
A. Thesis Statement: The drastic style comparison of the Renaissance time period to the Baroque period by how their usage of form, space, and composition can show the different effect the painting will have. The art work that is going to be compared to show vast differences from the Renaissance to the Baroque are the paintings done by Pietro Perugino who painted Christ Delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to St. Peter in the Renaissance to Caravaggio who painted Conversion of St. Paul in the Baroque and how the ways they painted gave a different narrative to the painting.

II. Background Information
A. Pietro Perugino art style in the Renaissance was to show clarity, symmetry, and simplicity.
B. Caravaggio art style was very different from his early predecessors by being more realistic and dramatic approach to his artwork.
C. Perugino in his painting of Christ …show more content…
Caravaggio uses color and lighting in different way to show movement through the painting to show movement to figures and show more realism. He uses tenebrism, dramatic lighting, and dark effects to give an emotional response to the observer.

III. Supporting Claims
A. Caravaggio wants to give an emotional response to the viewer through his use of painting with color, his use of tenebrism, and how he uses lighting, the different usage of space, and lines to give an emotional response. Where as Perugino was to give persuade the viewer by using a more rational approach by using basic figures and different way of using symmetry, lines, lighting, and space.

IV. Counter Argument
A. Caravaggio paints The Conversion of Saint Paul which shows the difference of artistry between him and Perugino, but one could make the argument that the ways Caravaggio painted the Conversion of Saint Paul still has resemblances to the Renaissance period and that Perugino could have been seen as more of a humanistic painting, but that term can be used or seen as realism, which is what Caravaggio is known