Italian Renaissance art

Author: Xu Qingping
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: By deeply understanding those beautiful things, one can cultivate refined tastes and mature humanitarians. It is well-known that the Italian Renaissance is regarded as an artistic hall that elevates people from humble and dark to noble and enlightened, and a pinnacle of human pride in wisdom. This book elaborates on how artists emerged from the darkness of the Middle Ages, restored the excellent traditions of Greece, and, guided by science and philosophy, made plastic arts the best means for expressing thoughts and emotions, creating miraculous crystallizations of human effort. All representative schools, artists, and masterpieces of this period are appreciated from an artistic and aesthetic perspective. Therefore, reading this book is not unlike a sacred pilgrimage at the peak of art.