How Is Giotto Portrayed In Caravaggio's Entombment?

The development of painting in Italy has improved immensely over time. Giotto’s painting Lamentation and in Caravaggio’s Entombment both portray similar messages through different period styles. Giotto was an early renaissance painter that introduced gold leaf and lapis lazuli which is shown through Lamentation. Lamentation comes from the lament, which means to grieve, in which Mary and others were lamenting the death of her son. While on the other hand, Caravaggio’s style of painting was portrayed by realism. He felt that realism gave him the best picture to reflect onto the canvas. He later began a style called Entombment, which brought the audience close to the space and action that the painting entailed. Despite the similarities that the two artist share, there are also many differences.
The figures in the painting show their grief in different ways, some are sad and keeping to themselves while others throw their arms out. This shows the different ways people express their emotions. Giotto put all emphasis on Christ in this painting so that he could be the focal point. All the figures surrounding Jesus have deep emotions that are expressed while looking down at him in his mother’s arms. With all the figures looking at the same thing it automatically makes the viewer focus on that focal point.
Giotto was also very interested in naturalism and shows two figures sitting down at the both of the image with their backs turned to the viewer to interpret a realistic crowd scene. We are looking at Jesus and Mary as they are looking at them too. Besides all the human figures Giotto also presents angels in the sky. The angels are also mourning because the of the death of Christ. They bring a lot more despondent emotion to this painting for example, one of them