Medieval vs. Renaissance Paintings Michelangelo’s painting of The Holy Family with the infant St. John the Baptist catches my eye more so than Jan van Eyck’s Madonna in the Church. These two paintings differ in many aspects because they come from two different periods of time. Renaissance paintings were often of great leaders or people of great importance, whereas Medieval paintings were mainly tied in with the Church or religion. Paintings in the …showed first 75 words of 503 total…

…showed last 75 words of 503 total…in Renaissance Italy was to take satisfaction in beauty, to present the world as desirable, to be clear-cut, lucid, and finite”, as Michelangelo clearly did in his painting of The Holy Family. The Medieval Ages on the contrary, had a different outlook on art. Beauty was expresses in different ways and the world was less desirable and seemed almost murky or gloomy. Eyck shows these tones in his painting of the Madonna in the Church.