I thought I'd make a thread and share my thoughts on the skin
tones of the masters of the high renaissance and maybe get some
feedback as to the ideas of other painters out there, this
thread's gonna be abit image heavy, just a word of warning I
guess hahah. I think that one of the biggest advancements made
in the baroque era that had not really been touched on by
preceeding artists is an increasing complexity in skin tones.
Only a few artists, most notably in my mind Moroni had really
began systematically observing the possible modulations in skin
tone and treating it as something individual. Other than that,
high renaissance artists tended to generalise their skin tones
depending on the genre of their painting and also the physical
characterists of their models. A good example is this painting
by correggio Notice how the skin tones of the women and children
are fair whereas the complexion of the male is significantly
darker, actually identical to that of the lion that stands
beside him. No attempt is being