A Book of Revelations, Design for pp. 1-2

​   ​   During the Italian Renaissance, two schools of thought came about to describe the ideation and creation of paintings. ​One was named 'disegno' and was associated with the Florentine way while the other was 'colore' and was associated with the Venetian way. The former emphasized planning, order, logic, drawing, linework, and composition. On the other hand, the latter focused on movement, emotion, freeform design, and dramatic light and color. The former could be seen as masculine, and the latter, feminine. 

​   After thinking about this, I decided that it would be interesting to make one side of the book, the attack against Catholicism, be represented by this orderly and linework-heavy method while the rebuttal would be represented by the emotional and painterly method.

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