The art in the Renaissance and the Baroque era depicts the cultural values of each era. By looking at the proportions, facial emotion, and movement of David by Michelangelo and The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa by Bernini, any observer can see the differences in the eras. The proportions of David show the perfect universal man that the Renaissance era idealized compared to the proportions of The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa that shows the realism the Baroque era used so viewers felt like they were participating in the religious experiences. The facial emotion in David is self-contained and confident, which shows the Renaissance era’s ideas of humanism that creates harmony and balance compared to the facial emotion in The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa of seduction and moaning dramatizing of Baroque era’s religious experience of Teresa's intense religious ecstasy with God. Finally, the movement depicted in David shows the Renaissance era’s ideas of humanism's universal man and naturalism that is done through contraposto compared to the movement depicted in The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa which shows the Baroque era’s ideas of dynamic movement to created drama to intensify the experience. Although this is only a depiction of two eras, every era has it’s own cultural values that sets them apart from other eras and it can be seen through the era’s art.
