Italian Gothic and Flemish Baroque Painting and art are two prolithic and different time periods in the history of art. ... Being that the the two paintings i will discuss in this analysis are from different periods of time we can still make comparisons because of the way art has been processed through different periods in time.Recently on my trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I looked at two works of art that i will compare and analyze. In this analyzation i will compare, Simone Martini’s, Saint Andrew, and, Rubens’, Study of Two heads. ...
Simone Martini’s, Saint Andrew, from the Italian gothic Period, 1330 A. ...
Peter Paul Rubens’, Study of Two Heads, Flemish 1577-1640, is an oil painting on wood. ... Isolated or juxtaposed studies of heads provided Rubens and other baroque painters with a stock of expressive types for their religious and historical paintings. ... The profile head at the left of the painting repeats one of a series of heads copied by Rubens from Andrea Mantegnas "Triumph of Caesar", which he must have studied while in the service of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga at Mantua. Dominating this profile is the study of a bearded man with ecstatic upturned eyes, a head of Rubens own invention. ... Saint Andrew is a tempera on wood with a gold ground panel, about 221/2 by 14 7/8
inches, while Study of Two heads is an oil on wood, about 271/2 by 20 1/2 inches. ... This medium produces a brilliant, pure hue like that of Saint Andrew. ... The subject matter of both deal with studies of heads, including the use of drapery. Rubens has also put in another head that bares left of the painting, thought to be a study of one of the heads he copied from Andrea Mantegna’s, Triumph of Caesar. ... Both studies of the figure are in the foreground, while the background has less or no treatment, However in Saint Andrew if we look at the halo around his head it looks to have been stamped or etched into the canvas. Saint Andrew is looking in a forward fashion, while in the Study of Two heads The Figure in the foreground Is looking in an upward fashion, while the head to the left of that is looking completely downward.
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