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 clue to the supernatural meeting of the two women and symbolically tells God's choice of the two women involved in his miracle. Zacharias slowly moves down the stairs, while a young boy helps him, then on the other side you see Joseph as he climbs up the hill leading his donkey; these two figures are related by a several gestures that give the image more softness and fluidity. The several animals within the image have a symbolic meaning, for instance, the dog gives a touch of casualty and is a symbol of the faithfulness of the couples. The peacock, a symbol of vanity, is seen watching over its young. Therefore, the details of this image all give a symbolic meaning, which draws the observer to the scene and to what the meaning of this image really is.
