Choose one portrait by Raphael and one by Leonardo and COMPA
Both Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael have used the High Renaissance ideals to characterise their sitters to create a naturalistic and fashionable portrait.In the last decade of the fifteenth Century the independent portrait emerged, its credit going to Leonardo da Vinci. High Renaissance portraits let the artist characterise the individual and idealise their form to the perfect ideal of the time. For men this included a restrained pose, jewellery to show wealthiness. For women, their skin was pale and smooth hairstyles that were in style at the time was the ever popular plucked hairline style. Portraits were naturalistic and the sitter looked as if he or she lived and breathed. An artist cold characterise their sitter through a number of devices such as pose, expression, gesture, clothing, jewellery, makeup, hairstyle, setting, symbols, colour, light as well as many more. Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) studied under Andrea del Verrochio and was admitted to the painter’s guild in 1472. Leonardo’s human dissections led Leonardo to have a greater understanding of how the human body worked. Leonardo believed the body was like a complex system of we
Both women’s gestures are similar, hand rested in front of her, along with the veil they both wear. Both Leonardo and Raphael characterise their individuals in similar ways.
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