Compare and Contrast two works of art from different styles.

THE COMPARISSON OF CORONATION OF THE VIRGIN ' BY GENTILE DE FABRIANO AND MADONNA AND CHILD ' BY PAOLO UCELLO AS EXAMPLES OF INTERNATIONAL GOTHIC AND EARLY RENAISSANCE

Italy experienced a massive art boom in the early fifteenth century , or as Italians themselves call it Quattrocento . This especially concerns the art of painting , deeply affected by changes , inspired by approaching Renaissance . It is hard to say , that paintings of that time belonged to pure Renaissance , however , their style already could not be attributed to earlier Gothic . The transition period generated a number of

painters and entire painting schools each of them with it 's own original manner

This is to compare and examine the similarities and differences between the paintings of Gentile da Fabriano (1370-1427 , as representative of late Gothic iconographic painting and Paolo Ucello (1397-1475 , whose paintings more likely include Renaissance trends Fabriano 's Coronation of the Virgin (1420 ) and Ucello 's Madonna and Child (1470 ) shall be taken as examples . Both paintings can be found in the The J . Paul Getty Trust museum , Los Angeles , California

The theme of coronation of Virgin Mary by her Son Jesus as Queen of Heaven was quite popular in the medieval painting . Almost all the artists of the time , including Michele Giambono Lorenzo Monaco and later Raphael and Velasques have once tried to depict this event . Fabriano himself turned to it for a few times . The Coronation ' being described here belongs to one of his late paintings and should not be confused with the most famous Coronation of the Virgin and Saints , painted in 1400

The style of the Coronation of the Virgin , painted by tempera and gold leaf on panel may be called both Gothic and Renaissance . It can be noticed , that Fabriano has been strongly influenced by the Byzantine style , which has been accepted in Southern Europe for many centuries and made artist 's paintings in a way similar to Orthodox icons of Byzantium and Russia . The main characteristics of such combined style often called International Gothics , are the strict situation of figures and groups , flat plain background and absence of perspective , special set of brightly contrasting colors , including usually yellow , golden red and blue , as well as vivid symbolism of each object , being depicted Especially the Italian Gothic , which arose in during the second quarter of the fourteenth century , is characterized by balanced forms and a grave mannerism . Figures are painted against monochrome or gold backgrounds in a formula that barely hints at a third dimension , but never shows it . Nevertheless , this style appeared to be much more realistic , than the one of earlier centuries

This panel of Christ crowning his mother , Mary , originally formed the front of a two-sided processional standard carried in religious ceremonies in Gentile 's native town of Fabriano . In this shimmering image , Gentile makes effective use of the complex patterning and wealth of surface ornamentation that is characteristic of the International Gothic style and that recalls the rich fabrics woven in Florence

Madonna and child...