BRONZINO
*Mannerism
*Cupid fondling his mother Venus, while Folly prepares to shower them with rose petals
*time is in the right hand corner reveals the playful incest in progress
*masks (on ground) are a favorite device of man, which symbolizes deceit
suggests:
*love accompanied by envy and plagued by inconstancy is follish - love will discover it's folley in time
VanGogh
Info:
*he was living in Saint-Paul-de-Mausule asylum
*communicated the vastness of the universe with the sky filled with whirling / exploding starts and galaxies of stars
*this might be the view from the asylum
*turbulent brush strokes and color suggest a quiet but pervasive depression