Peter Paul Ruben's David Slaying Goliath

The Work that really got my attention in the Norton Simon Museum of Art was Peter Paul Ruben’s “David Slaying Goliath” 1616. It got my attention because of how the composition draws your attention from the bottom to the top. Meanwhile, the styles are different from each other and Peter’s painting is full of dramatic expression. The Baroque painting technique was brushy and often eliminated outlines. When comparing the works of Raphael’s “Madonna in the Meadow” 1506 to “David slaying Goliath” it symbolizes the influence of Leonardo’s pyramidal composition. The styles in both paintings are different because one is dramatic and the others as a more classical feel like the “Madonna in the Meadow”. The Light sources in the baroque are specific

This composition was used by Leonardo da Vinci and was used by many artists after him. The pyramidal composition is the clustering of figures that form a triangle form. In the painting “David slaying Goliath” the figure in the bottom is laying flat across the canvas. David who is the figure with the sword across his back forms the composition as a triangle by placing his foot over Goliath’s face. Furthermore, the same composition is used in Raphael’s painting of the “Madonna in the Meadow”. In his work Raphael paints Jesus playing with john the Baptists as the base of the composition. Raphael appears to respond to the influences of Leonardo da Vinci pyramidal grouping. Therefore, the two artists share the same technique when it comes down to

The styles in which these two-artist paint are different from color, emotion and technique. Fred S. Kleiner states, “ Renaissance artist embraced the precise, orderly rationally of classical models, Baroque artist reveled in dynamism” (p.287).

Peter Paul Ruben’s work is painted in a Baroque style, which is developed in the beginning of the 1600s is full of dramatic expression. Peter’s painting is full of drama from the violent motions to the intense uses light and dark values. On the other hand, the Renaissance style of Raphael was more interested in the classical culture. The contrast of light and dark shadows is called chiaroscuro, which created the illusion of light coming form a specific source. Therefore, both of these artists took advantage of the technique chiaroscuro to create a more naturalistic feel to the