1、Renaissance第1页overvieworiginscharacteristicsThe three geniuses of Renaissance第2页Overview14th17th centuriescultural movement European Beginning in Italyliterature,philosophyart,music,politics,science,religion,第3页Origins13th centuryItalyFlorencePeople lost their faith in the church and began to put mo
2、re focus on human beings and material possessions第4页Social and political structures in ItalyThe unique political structures of late Middle Ages Italy have led some to theorize that its unusual social climate allowed the emergence of a rare cultural efflorescence.Italy did not exist as a political en
3、tity in the early modern period.Instead,it was divided into smaller city states and territories第5页Beginning of the Renaissance The Italian Renaissance had placed human beings once more in the center of lifes stage and infused thought and art with humanistic values.In time the stimulating ideas curre
4、nt in Italy spread to other areas and combined with indigenous developments to produce a French Renaissance,an English Renaissance,and so on.第6页Why the Renaissance emerged in Italy?Its prosperous trade and production of handicraft.Its rich variety of urban social life coinciding with the emergence o
5、f more cities.The wealth of culture passed down from the artistic and architectural heritage of Rome and the fourth was the use of Latin as a common language in the Italian society.第7页Cultural conditions in FlorenceIt has long been a matter of debate why the Renaissance began in Florence,and not els
6、ewhere in Italy.Scholars have noted several features unique to Florentine cultural life which may have caused such a cultural movement.Lorenzo de Medici,ruler of Florence and patron of arts 第8页CharacteristicsHumanismArtScience第9页Why the Renaissance began in FlorenceMany have emphasized the role play
7、ed by the Medici,a banking family and later ducal ruling house,in patronizing and stimulating the arts.Lorenzo de Medici(14491492)was the catalyst for an enormous amount of arts patronage,encouraging his countrymen to commission works from Florences leading artists,including Leonardo da Vinci,Sandro
8、 Botticelli,and Michelangelo Buonarroti.Works by Neri di Bicci,Sandro Botticelli,Leonardo da Vinci and Filippino Lippi had been commissioned additionally by the convent di San Donato agli Scopeti of the Augustinians order in Florence.第10页HumanismThe humanists believed that it is important to transce
9、nd to the afterlife with a perfect mind and body.This transcending belief can be done with education.The purpose of humanism was to create a universal man whose person combined intellectual and physical excellence and who was capable of functioning honorably in virtually any situation.This ideology
10、was referred to as the uomo universale,an ancient Greco-Roman ideal.The education during Renaissance was mainly composed of ancient literature and history.It was thought that the classics provided moral instruction and an intensive understanding of human behavior.第11页Pico della Mirandola.He wrote th
11、e famous Oration on the Dignity of Man,which has been called the Manifesto of the Renaissance第12页ArtThe development of perspective was part of a wider trend towards realism in the arts.To that end,painters also developed other techniques,studying light,shadow,and,famously in the case of Leonardo da
12、Vinci,human anatomy.Underlying these changes in artistic method,was a renewed desire to depict the beauty of nature,and to unravel the axioms of aesthetics,with the works of Leonardo,Michelangelo and Raphael representing artistic pinnacles that were to be much imitated by other artists第13页Michelange
13、los tomb in the Basilica of Santa Croce,Florence第14页scienceOne important development was not any specific discovery,but rather the further development of the process for discovery,the scientific method.It focused on empirical evidence,the importance of mathematics,and discarded Aristotelian science.
14、Early and influential proponents of these ideas included Copernicus,Galileo,and Francis Bacon.6566 The new scientific method led to great contributions in the fields of astronomy,physics,biology,and anatomy.第15页Galileo Galilei.Portrait in crayon by Renaissance sculptor Leone Leoni第16页 Leonardo da Vi
15、nci Michelangelo Raffaello Sanzio The three geniuses of Renaissance第17页 Da VinciMona Lisa The Mona Lisa is the most famous masterpiece.Its da Vincis highest artistic achievement.Da Vincis unique artistic language is the use of light and shade to create a three-dimensional sense of the image of the p
16、lane.He once said:the greatest miracle of painting,is to make the picture showing a concave and convex Da Vinci has shown a very high talent in painting since childhood,so his father sent him to the painting workshop to learn painting.Before the start of the study,the teacher let da Vinci practice p
17、ainting an egg for many days.第18页Mona Lisa Finally Da Vinci got impatient,he thought the teacher looked down upon him.After the teacher read his thoughts,he told da Vinci a truth:There are no two things exactly the same in the world,even is the same thing,due to the different point of view and light
18、.Da Vinci is suddenly enlighted,since then,he began training basic painting skills,learning all kinds of art and scientific knowledge,all this had laid a solid foundation for his later outstanding achievements.第19页Astronomy Da Vinci take a negative view to the point:Earth is the center of the univer
19、se.His view is presented earlier than Heliocentric theory.第20页Meachine He find the Friction definition by experiments.Through his study of the birds wing movement,he design a Aircraft in 1493 for the first time.第21页Robot He design a primary robot by dissecting bodies.Made a great contribution to the
20、 development of anatomy.第22页ArchitectureIn architecture,he also showed a remarkable talent.He designed bridges,churches,city streets and city buildings.In the design of the city streets,he separate paths and sidewalks.When designing urban architecture,it requires the height of the house and the stre
21、et width.第23页MilitaryHe invented the tanks,floating snowshoes,diving suits,submarines and helicopters,Made a great contribution to the development of Military.第24页MichelangeloA great artist第25页Name:MichelangeloLife:March 1475 February 1564(late renaissance)Known for:Sculpture,painting,architecture,a
22、nd poetryNationality:Italy第26页Michelangelo was born in Florence,where it was the cradle of the Renaissance.So he had been influenced by the art from he was a child.And under the protection of Florences rulers,he receive a good art education.第27页He left home to Rome When he was 26 years old.In Rome,h
23、e made mourning of Christ statue for St.Peters Church.Due to the production too exquisite,people even not believe that it was did by Michelangelo.So he left his signature on the bottom of the statue.And this is the only with his signature.The theme of the work is taken from the biblical story:After
24、Christ Jesus was crucified on the cross,the mother Mary Maria crying while holding the body of Christ.第28页From the statue,we can see the dead Christ repose in the knee of the Virgin Mary,virgin overlooking her son,her eyes filled with sorrow and pity.The expression of Mary is silent and complex,not
25、only pour silent grief and pray full with sad.It has far exceeded the Christian faith,which is a kind of filled with feelings of mankinds the greatest and the most noble love.第29页Michelangelo s achievement in sculpture is no one can compare.But he spent most of his afterlife in the building.During t
26、his period,he created a lot of works known to the world,especially in the aspect of mural painting.The right is the last work of himThe Last Judgement.The most representative works of him was a huge paintingGenesis zenith which was created for Sistine Chapel in Rome.第30页The creation of this work las
27、ted for more than four years.There are 343 characters in picture which is consist of 9 central painting and a number of decorative painting.第31页第32页Michelangelo died in Rome in 1564.He is irascible not gregarious,but hes a great artist.His works have influenced for several centuries.Michelangelo rep
28、resents the highest peak of the art of sculpture in the Renaissance period in Europe.The statue of his character often look like with majestic strong,ambitious spirit,full of infinite power.His large number of works shows the unusual ideal processing that basis on the realistic,as a typical symbol o
29、f the era.His artistic creation is often in a realistic way and romantic fantasy,the performance of the civil class of patriotism and the spirit of the struggle for freedom.第33页Raphael(1483-1520)Raphael was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.His work is admired for its clarity
30、of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the ideal of human grandeur.第34页Raphael(1483-1520)Raphael was enormously productive,running an unusually large workshop and,despite his death at 37,leaving a large body of work.His career falls naturally into three phases and three st
31、yles.第35页Raphael(1483-1520)A brilliant self-portrait drawing from his teenage years shows his precocious talent.Raphael at least worked as an assistant to Perugino from around 1500.He was evidently already much in demand even at this early stage in his career.第36页Raphael(1483-1520)As earlier with Pe
32、rugino and others,Raphael was able to assimilate the influence of Florentine art,whilst keeping his own developing style.第37页By the end of 1508,he had moved to Rome,where he lived for the rest of his life.This first of the famous Raphael Rooms to be painted,now always known as the Stanza della Segna
33、tura after its use in Vasaris time,was to make a stunning impact on Roman art.第38页Raphael(1483-1520)Raphaels premature death on Good Friday,which was possibly his 37th birthday,was caused by a night of excessive sex with Luti,after which he fell into a fever and,not telling his doctors that this was
34、 its cause,was given the wrong cure,which killed him.第39页Raphael(1483-1520)His funeral was extremely grand,attended by large crowds.The inscription in his marble sarcophagus meaning:Here lies Raffaello who,when alive,Nature was afraid to be won by him,when he died,she wanted to die herself.第40页thanks第41页