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Artists who focused on the Baroque style of painting had an uncanny ability to showcase their style more than artists of the Renaissance era. Regarding their different approaches towards form, space and artwork, the differences in their styles have led to dissimilar descriptions. The Renaissance and Baroque seem to focus on the treatment of space, appearance and color. This uniqueness affects the description of a painting and therefore it cannot be seen. More than comparing Perugino's Christ handing the keys of the Kingdom to early Renaissance St. Peter to Caravaggio's Baroque exchange of St. Paul. Perugino was considered one of the best when it comes to the early Renaissance style. He was also highly respected and was well known in the Renaissance. Renaissance people were very familiar with the principles of wholesomeness, ease, and exceptional compositional balance. His approach to forming Christ handing the keys of the Kingdom to St. Peter was very straightforward. He outlined all the figures with a black stripe giving them intelligence of determination, strength and power in their surroundings, but limiting the figures' sense of movement. In reality, the figures appear not to move at all, but rather to remain frozen in a certain moment in time by their rigid outline. He illuminates the figures clearly and uniformly, respecting the lucid and orderly meaning of the work of art. His figures are all protected in a contrapposto attitude, attractive in lucid chat with others, giving a strong sense of classical wisdom. The figures are repeated over and over in this way to convey a rational response and show the viewer clarity.Perugi...... middle of paper......stere to the painting.Caravaggio brought new existence and closeness to the the emotional characteristic of painting. He abandoned the rules of Renaissance artists such as Perugino who had idealized human and religious facts, he rejected the preciousness of Renaissance theory and put his touching intuition into practice in the Conversion of Saint Paul, ideally suited to the purposes of the Catholic Reformation. Because Caravaggio's goal as a Baroque artist, was to show subjects in a touching, emotional narrative way and, therefore, achieve an emotional response. Its overall demonstration of dynamic stability, pictorial forms, variety of forms, constant collapse of space and tenebrism create a heightened mystery and that moving narrative. Perugino's art was the art of classical influence, but Caravaggio's art was the art of sensitive persuasion because it influenced the emotions.