While heavily influenced by the Italian renaissance artists, northern Renaissance painters tended to work on oil and panels as opposed to canvas and frescos. Near the end of the renaissance, in the late 16th century, the protestant movement in their religious works influenced northern renaissance painters. An important distinction of Northern renaissance art is the attention paid to detail, and the use
and cast the damn to hell. The main differences between these two historical painting is the overall style and context between the two artist. Giotto version was completed in 1305 and differs dramatically than the later version of Michelangelo's fresco. Giotto took a more colorful and conservative approach while leaving some of the supernatural visual aspects to the imagination of the viewer. Michelangelo's version, considered to be one of his last and greatest pieces and a change in style for
gain momentum throughout Europe, though, “Ideal beauty could not simply be copied from a single exemplar found in the natural world. Instead, ‘excellent parts should all be selected from the most beautiful bodies.’” (Corry 580). Artists such as Raphael believed it was close to impossible to find a beautiful woman in the world, so instead of using natural characteristics that were viewed as beautiful, he would paint what he imagined as beautiful (Haughton 232). He would therefore take