Baroque Renaissance: The Crown by Bartolomeo Cavarozzi 1620

 



The Virgin and Child with Angels by Bartolomeo Cavarozzi 1620

I choose this painting because I was drawn to the youthful look of everyone in the pictures.  The background being completely black make the viewers eye immediately drawn to the children lowering the crown into the young woman heads. The highlights on all the people in the piece gives them a dew look hinting at their youthfulness. The feeling that I pick up from this piece is even through the Virgin is having a crown placed on her head she founds the baby on her lap more important. Hence her gaze being downward towards the kid not upwards to the crown. I would own this artwork in my own house. I found it every calming and serene effect on me/the viewer. I sadly could not find a backstory on The Virgin and Child with Angels by Bartolomeo Cavarozzi. Bartolomeo was influenced by the Council of Trent.

Houston. “Virgin and Child with Angels | All Works | the MFAH Collections.” Mfah.org, 2019, emuseum.mfah.org/objects/20402/virgin-and-child-with-angels?idx=1085. Accessed 11 Oct. 2024.



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  1. Aidan PayanOctober 14, 2024 at 7:01 PM

    I have always been drawn to these religious paintings. Before coming to the understanding of the subtleties between Renaissance and Baroque paintings. With my new found understanding I am increasingly drawn towards Baroque for all the reasons you’ve stated. The use of light and dark to create their youthful faces. The positions of the hands on the crown create an illusion of motion. The black background is another common technique of the Baroque era.

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  2. Eli CleinOctober 14, 2024 at 7:10 PM

    Hey Lilly,

    I love the composition of this piece. The way every figure is tilted right and looking rightwards. I feel a playful tension between the rightmost angel and baby Jesus as it looks down on Jesus. The tenebrism used creates an aura of divinity despite the realistic figures. I like your point about Madonna caring more about the baby on her lap than the crown almost at her head. I wonder if she's being crowned as a stand-in for Jesus like how she's usually an intermediary between worshippers and the Holy Trinity.

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  3. Tracey AbrahamOctober 14, 2024 at 9:23 PM

    Hi Lilly,
    I enjoyed reading your post regarding this piece of artwork. The way Madonna is looking at the baby in her lap with more concern and almost in a motherly way and not paying much attention to the crown that is about to be placed on her head. This appealed to me about this painting because despite Madonna in the process of being crowned by the angels, she is focused on her baby. To me this detail creates the notion that the child holds more importance than the crown.

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