Painting should create effects with light and color
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Velázquez involves the viewer by creating a convincing space and eye contact with the subjects in the painting.
Until the latter part of the 15th century practically all painting were either portraits or had religious subjects. The 16th and 17th centuries were dominated by history and religious subjects.This is to say that any artist before 1700 was a religious painter.Just take your pick:Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael ...
most of the subjects are painted in Greek and Roman clothing (APEX)
Velázquez involves the viewer by creating a convincing space and eye contact with the subjects in the painting.
German painters usually painted portraits, landscapes, and classic myths or made woodcuts and engravings. Flemish painters used a layering technique with their paints to create a variety colors and tried to show their subjects personality.