DESCRIBING PICTURES OF RENAISSANCE : RAPHAEL SISTINE MADONNA

No image is more universal than the mother and child,a subject that occurs in the syimbolism of many religions. Cristhian doctrine presented the artist with two special probleams: To conveys Mary s virgin purity as well his motherhood, and to show clearly that this is no ordinary child but the incarnation of the deity. Earlier centuries  had given heir pair a hieratic solenity but by late middlle ages the emphasis was alredy on tenderness and beauty.How to care this further without sacrifing the aura of divinty was the task facing the renaissance painter.Mary customarily sits on a throne, attended by angels, and the child is ussualy shown as an infart at least once year old with an itelligence beyond babyhood.Massacio him suck his fingers,but ther is  no mistaiking the group s soprenatural charges. The same equation hold  in varying degrees for other artists,each fiding his own solution, from almost literal domesticy to monomuentality of a living statue. Raphael s sistine Madonna is one of those supreme  masterpicies whose appel crosses every barrier of education and taste, while pergamino s Madonna , full of strange juxtapositions of scale, makes the child so large that it is hard to exclude the thought of the dead Christ of the pietá.