UNIT 4
The Bellelli Family
Subject -
the painting is a portrait of his aunt, her husband, and their two young daughters, underscores the familial tensions
Composition -
models were synthesized into a composition that was unique in the painter's overview and unique among the works of his contemporaries, paintings poses much of a snapshot due to his thoroughfull study of the of human body and great mastery in the depiction of movement, connecting the generations of his family, and following a convention of portraiture used since the Renaissance
Style -
mastery in the depiction of movement, bringing the traditional methods of a history painter to bear on contemporary subject matter