Assignment # 5: Themes in Art

In the first painting, "Gian Federico Madruzzo", by Giovanni Battista Moroni, I believe show the theme of Looking outward: The Here and Now. The man is portrayed as if he has just gotten ready for his day or a night on the town. No one really knows where he is going but we know it is a painting portrayed in the time it was taken. We as the viewers are looking outward at him at his time which was the here and now.


For the second painting, "Cardinal Bandinello Sauli, His Secretary, and Two Geographers", by Sebastiano del Piombo, it is more under the theme of politics and social order. It is the Cardinal, his secretary and two geographers. The Cardinal can been seen as both politics and worship because in Rome they are the ones who run the politics and churches. Popes, Cardinals, etc. all have some sort of politics to them. In this painting it even looks as if they could be discussing some kind of social order and the Cardinal almost looks bored with what they have to say. The Cardinal is showing power with his disintrested look in what those around him are saying.