Question

What Baroque convention characterizes Rubens's Elevation of the Cross? A. The figures are rendered with dramatic foreshortening and appear to break into the viewer's space. B. The figures are organized in a symmetrical composition with a heavenly background. C. The figures are organized in a complex composition to create the illusion of depth. D. The forms and faces are rendered with flat, neutral color and appear bluer as they recede into space.

Answer 1

Answer:

A. The figures are rendered with dramatic foreshortening and appear to break into the viewer's space.

Explanation:

The earlier Renaissance art style period  evolved into Baroque style of art representing one that pays attention to human anatomy and religious themes of the Renaissance while it leaves behind that era characterized by a more flashy style capturing  movement and emotions in it.

Ruben's "Elevation of the Cross," Baroque style of art was a commissioned triptych (pictures painted on three tablets) as the altar piece for the Church of St. Walpurgis in Antwerp, Belgium.

Ruben's "Elevation of the Cross" was painted between 1610 and 1611 and is considered as one of the most famous and indeed excellent example of the Baroque convention of dynamism.

The figures on Rubens's Elevation of the Cross are rendered with dramatically created illusion of the cross receding strongly into the distance or background (foreshortened) and it appeared to break into the viewer's space.