In the age of Renaissance, most artworks were about sacred things or aristocracy. The artists generally made artworks to remember a god, a person, or a thing that happened in the Bible. However, with the development of the Renaissance, the forms and the techniques of artistic expression became diverse and more skilled gradually. The artists used more and more perspective in their artworks, and the emotion of each artworks had been performed more clearly. Not only the skills had developed, but also the ideology had developed. With the progress of the times, people’s thoughts had been greatly improved. Portrait of Eleanora of Toledo with her son Giovanni de’ Medici was a painting that was created by Agnolo Bronzino in 1550. This was an oil painting on panel. Its length was 115 centimeter and the width was 96 centimeter. This was a new type of court portrait. Eleanora was a beautiful woman with brown hair and a pair of big eyes. She was the second daughter of the Viceroy of Naples. She was also Cosimo’s wife. “The portrait presents her as an ideal of beauty, just as her husband was admired for his virile good looks and courage”(Janson’s History of Arts, p 599). In this image, the contour was very soft of this woman. Her …show more content…
This was an oil painting on canvas. This painting was also about a mother and her child. In this painting, a mother was helping her child to wash the child’s right feet. It seemed like this mother was sitting on several mats. She wore a long dress which is simple colors with vertical bar, and she tight her hair. She bowed her head and looked at her child’s feet. Her child was sitting on her legs. She held her child in her left arm. She seemed like she was whispering to her child. Her child put the left hand on her mother’s leg. It could help this child to support her body, and the right arm naturally fell. The child did not wear anything. She was only wrapped middle of her body by a white