nd repaint over an area, being able to visualize the exact color before it was applied. This new technique far surpassed the limitations of tempera that was being used in Italy.The most important aspect of Deposition is the symbolic tie it makes between the patron and the church. It portrays the sorrow of Christs death at the agony of His loss. This work also teaches the Catholic worship of St. Mary and the belief that she suffered just as Christ did. Van Der Weyden does this by painting Christ and Mary in similar poses so that the patron will have little trouble seeing the likeness.Deposition was the center panel of a triptych, which was placed before the altarpiece. The dead Christ at the alter symbolized the Catholic belief in transubstantiation, that when taking the Eucharist you were in reality eating the flesh of Christ. This symbolism of art at the altarpiece was also used by Caravaggio during the formation of the International Baroque style in his Entombment (1603, see figure 3).The birth of the Renaissance led to the use of more new techniques to create emotion and power in art. Unlike the people of Flanders, artists and others in Florence became interested in the classic tradition of the Greeks. They had access to the ancient sculptures and other works that embodied the perfect human form. Thanks to the translation of ancient texts people could now read the works of Greek philosophers and their interest began to grow in secular study. Artists became more than just painters, they also studied arithmetic and anatomy. With the study of Platos work the philosophy of Humanism arose, and it became important that the artist seek to maximize their individual potential.The use of mathematics to portray linear perspective became widespread in the Renaissance and paintings were now more realistic than ever before. In Andrea Mantegnas the Dead Christ (1501, see figure 2) all the orthogonal lines of the alter vanish backward dra...
