A Comparison of Barna di Siena’s Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine and

A Comparison of Barna di Sienas Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine and Rogier van der Weydens Saint Luke selective service the Virgin and Child Development in art often follows two tracks development over a period of time and also differences in regional development. Both changes are seen in the comparison of Barna di Sienas Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine and Rogier van der Weydens Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin and Child. Originating in Italy, the renascence began in the mid to late 13th century. Barna da Siena was one of the early Renaissance artists influenced by Duccio di Buoninsegna and Simone Martini. Barna di Sienas painting is dated around 1340 and Rogier van der Weydens painting was painted nearly a century later around 1435. Rogier van der Weyden had the advantage of development in perspective and modeling that developed over time, but was also from the Flemish school of art, a hyphen totally different from that of the early Italian Renaissance artists. Wha t lends these paintings so readily to comparison is the circumstance that the general symmetrical composition of two main figures and the sizes of the two are approximately the same. However, it is clear that a century and a different region has created stylise differences that are very clear.Barna di Sienas Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine exhibits a highly dramatic style that was not seen in his mentor nor in his familiar spirit student Lippo Memmis work. The symmetric composition consists of two main figures, Saint Catherine and the adult Jesus. In the painting, Jesus is seen placing a ring on Saint Catherines finger and taking her as his spiritual bride. Both figures appear to be very light and frail and the draperies they wear do not show the gentlemans gentleman f... ...rlapping figures, relative positioning from the ground line and also the illusion of making parallel lines join somewhere far away in the distance.These two paintings spiel typical examples from 14th century Italian artist, Barna da Siena, and 15th century Flemish artist, Rogier van der Weyden. Both images depict two main characters in a rather symmetrical composition and are of large size. However, it is clear that over a century and different region the stylized differences are very clear. Realism, the style of Flemish artists at the time, with all of its detail, is quite different from the large, flat shapes of color in Barna da Sienas painting. Just by looking at the two, it is bare that the second painting is more advanced and developed. Art continues developing along different tracks today and who knows what art will develop into in the future.