Art history is composed by its different period and each of them creating extraordinary yes distinct artists and artwork. Peter Paul Ruben is an artist from the Baroque period known for being one of the most successful artist in the period. Likewise, Jacques-Louis David is “the most important French Neoclassical painter” from the Neoclassical era. Being from different place and period, the artworks produced by the artists differed in story, message, theme, style, and composition.
The Baroque and Neoclassicism are different periods that influenced art and artists and created a provenance that is visible until today. Marked for having a totally different emphasis and focus, art works from those periods had different characters and themes. For example, the Baroque was characterized for its massive or monumental scale and intense emotions; the Neoclassicism period, on the other hand, focused more on classical period and on being historically correct both on settings and costumes. Peter Paul Rubens’ work, The Martyrdom of St. Leiven, was not an exception of the Baroque period: it constrains the deceptions of intense emotions, the use of asymmetrical composition, and emphasis on color and light. Differently, Jacques-Louis …show more content…
Even thought not an historical/classical moment, the painting of the death of Marat stayed as close to the reality as possible. The journalist had a skin condition that required him to stay in a medicinal bath. Thus, most of the time, he would write while in his medical bath. And he was truly killed while taking his medicinal bath. The note on his hand may be added by the artist, but he was still very true to the real event. The depiction of his skin, however, is somehow idealized; his skin condition is not represented in the painting. In the painting he only has this pale and normal skin, which might not be the