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“Madonna and Child” by Bernardo Daddi (1280-1348) An amazing leap in painting occurred during the Renaissance period (XIV century). Even though paintings began to look more realist starting in the middle age, or Gothic era (XII century), traditional realism reach another level during Renaissance. Artists shifted their techniques, beginning to depict shadows and a bit more perspective, that has changed the face of painting as we know it today.
PARIS — With the bloody revolutions of the late 1700s, the mood in Europe was apprehensive and brooding about the future. Perhaps then it's no surprise that the art from that time has a certain gloominess to it as well. Yet what is unexpected is the strange beauty certain artists began to give their visions of horror, whether it was embracing the devil in the same way Milton did in Paradise Lost as an alluring prince of darkness, or portraying the apocalypse with a light that was inverted to…