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his body turned away slightly, causing him to twist his neck giving us the impression that the event is too terrible for him to look at. Then we have Mary Magdeline (bottom right) who I feel Moretto has done an incredible job with. Mary Magdeline looks out to the viewer with a look of sorrow and disgust as if she is saying to us, ?Why are you just standing there after all he did for you? Help him!? Finally we have the body of Christ which gives us a sense of emptiness. The limp body makes us feel that the spirit has left the body and only the shell remains. In the Adoration of the Shepherds, Cigoli does not use the wide range of facial emotions that Moretto executed. Mary is depicted with a large smile to show how proud she is to be the mother of Jesus. Mary Magdeline who stands

to the left of Mary looks on in quiet awe just like the two shepherds who stand on the right. The shepherds who have just come in have look curious and try to catch a glimpse of Christ. Above Christ is an opening in the sky where five angels can be seen along with the star of Bethelham. All the angels look overjoyed with the event. Finally we have Christ who is painted fast asleep as if everyone in the world is at piece. I think Cigoli?s excellent understanding of anatomy helped him to show more emotion through people than Moretto who I feel shows the emotion of his painting through the color and lighting. Christ in both paintings is very similar to one another. In both paintings, Christ is the is the point of view and is surrounded at all sides by people. What I found most

interesting though is that Christ acts as an arrow in both pictures. In the Adoration of the Shepherds, Christ is angled so our eyes follow an imaginary line from him to the torch the man holds in the doorway. In Entombment, Christ?s body is leaned to the side and his arms are held out making Christ look like a giant arrow which points to the three crosses alone on the top of the hill where the crucifixion took place. With the exception of the crosses, there is nothing else on the hill. Both artists chose to do this for different reasons. I think Cigoli chose to do that in order to add balance to the picture. When looking at the painting the viewers eyes get caught first by the large light source on top and then the viewer works his way down to the light on Jesus and from here

the ?arrow? Christ works because he points to the third light source adding total balance of the light. Even though the picture is asymmetrical, it still has balance and harmony because of this. For Entombment, I think Moretto kept the hill bare with a barron, dismal backround of greys in order to show the loneliness and pain of being crucified. To see Christs body and to know he was up there on one of those crosses alone makes you feel more pity for him. But Christ?s body may also be pointing to the light that is fading over the hill which may be Christ after he left his body since he was known as the bringer of light. Both paintings also feature the Virgin Mary. For Adoration of the Shepherds, Cigoli painted Mary in the traditional sense by giving her a young beautiful face and

body. In Entombment, Mary is shown unusually older. There are wrinkles are visible on her face and that shows to us that she must endure the same displeasure of the world. Now both pictures are far apart in the life of Jesus so Mary would of course look older in the Entombment picture but artists of this time had created Pieta scenes that depicted Mary still as a young woman. Morretto and Cigoli each worked with the brush carefully in different ways to create their masterpieces. Cigoli blends his colors until one can not see where one color ends and the other color begins. By doing this, the light source above becomes much more realistic because it falls realistically on the bodies of the figures. Moretto on the other hand to not take blending as seriously and on some of the

garments, the paint is laid on rather thick. Moretto did care more about to detail than Cigoli though. His love of detail is evident in the lavish garments that Joseph and Nicodemus wear. Patterns can even be seen faintly in Saint John as well and Mary Magdeline?s outfit looks so realistic with all the folds in the drapery. The cave and the hill are also depicted clearly and to the point. Cigoli seems to suggest rather than explain fully when it comes to detail. There is no texture on the garments that they wear and there is no backround. The only part we can see detail is the still around Jesus. But even the basket and the hay are not drawn with much detail, he just draws a line or two in order to suggest. Both paintings benefit from their unique color schemes. In Cigoli?s