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

After researching and learning more about these two pieces of work, it gave a slightly better understanding. The piece by Snyders did not make much sense at first, but now I understand that his style of painting is still life, hunting and animals. Although, this did not change like or disliking of the image, I’m still not very fond of it. Rembrandt’s piece, on the other hand, makes a lot more sense and I like the lighting and the colors of the painting. I feel The Visitation has more meaning behind it than Still Life with Fruit, Vegetables and Dead Game. Therefore, my reaction stayed the same towards these two pieces.

“This picture may also relate to Rembrandt’s private life in the fact that Elizabeth’s face seems patterned after that of Rembrandt’s mother, who died in 1640 when his wife, Saskia, was about to deliver a child.” Rembrandt is a Dutch Baroque artist who ranks as one of the greatest painters in the history of Western Art. No painter has ever equaled his chiaroscuro effects or his bold impasto. In his early years, Rembrandt worked with Pieter Lastman, a painter of biblical, mythological, and historical scenes. The Visitation serves to sum up Rembrandt’s style at this transitional point in his development. The leaves and birds on the left are still reminiscent of Lastman. Rembrandt’s architecture is pure fantasy; both the exterior and interior views, are structures that were never seen in reality. “The landscape too, has nothing to do with

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