ABOUT Renaissance
In the Renaissance, we often saw an even use of light – with soft lines outlining figures and a sense of stillness – in the Baroque everything changes – and most obviously, dramatic contrasts of light and dark! Let’s use this thread to look at examples of this and to think about how and why the use of light changes how we see the subject. Here we see DaVinci’s High Renaissance Last Supper compared to the Baroque Tintoretto’s Last Supper – obviously religious subjects continue to dominate – but how specifically does the Baroque style reinterpret this subject?
