Comparing Madonna And Child With Two Donors

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Two paintings: Holy Family and Fragment of a Portable Triptych: Madonna and Child with Two Donors are both contain Virgin Mary. These two paintings have huge differences on style, and the charactors in the Holy Family is more vivid than the Madonna and Child with Two Donors.
The Holy Family consists of the Virgin Mary, the Child Jesus and Saint Joseph. In the foreground, Mary is holding the Child Jesus and sitting next to Saint Joseph. Mary is wearing a maroon long dress with a fulvous cape and a purple head scarf. She looks tender with a smiling, peaceful face. The Child Jesus is lying on her arm and wrapped with a piece of blue-gray fiber. Saint Joseph, who is sitting next to Mary is in a dark red gown, is looking at the Child Jesus seriously. …show more content…

Light is represented and lines are thin and continuous, which are used both in outline and details. The artist mainly made Mary centralized since she is in the foreground of the painting. She is also bigger and brighter than Joseph. The proportion of three characters is realistic, they seemed just as normal people.
Another portrait Madonna and Child with Two Donors simply narrates the Virgin Mary and the Baby Jesus on her arm. Mary is sitting on a chair in the middle of the artwork. She is wearing a blue gown with a head scarf in the same color. The Baby Christ is in ruby red clothes, sitting on Mary’s arm and looking at her. Besides these two main roles, there is a very short man and a very short women in red clothes standing on both sides of the chair. They are looking at Mary and praying devoutly. It’s easy to say the center of this painting is Mary and Jesus because they are in the middle with halo around their head.
While the characters in the Holy Family is vivid, people in Madonna and Child with Two Donors do not have that much lifelikeness. There are some factors contribute to this result. Firstly, The facial expression and body language in Madonna and Child with Two Donors looks weird and unatural without much emotions. Both of them don’t have any smile, and Mary’s posture looks stiff without

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