What major similarities and differences do you find between the Italian Renaissance and Baroque painters?

Answer 1

Some thoughts:
-Baroque = realism, idealism = Renaissance
-the Baroque never really forgot the Renaissance perception of the concrete world
-Baroque Art developed in Europe around 1600, as an reaction against the intricate and formulaic Mannerism that dominated the Late Renaissance. Baroque art is less complex, more realistic and more emotionally affecting than Mannerist art.

Answer 2

1. look at your geography map. 2. determine what countries are north of Italy (hint, canals..wooden shoes.) 3. now, do what the guy below me said, and read the history of what was going on with religion and culture at the time - this will tell you why the northern art differed from the Italian...