Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa vividly depicts people and human nature, and expresses the pursuit of real life and aesthetic taste by the emerging bourgeoisie.
Florence, Italy, as the birthplace of the Renaissance, has made outstanding achievements in poetry, painting, sculpture, architecture and music. The famous medici family in Florence was the most important patron of art at that time. Three famous artists Raphael, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were all born in Italy.
Politically, the feudal regime caused widespread dissatisfaction, the national consciousness began to awaken, and the masses of European countries showed a strong desire for national unity. As a result, a new era reflecting the interests and requirements of emerging capitalist forces began to appear in culture and art.
The new bourgeoisie thinks that medieval culture is a retrogression, while Greek and Roman classical culture is a bright and developed model, and they try to revive classical culture-and the so-called "revival" is actually an unprecedented liberation and creation of knowledge and spirit.
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Renaissance works embody humanism: advocating individual liberation and opposing asceticism and religious views in the Middle Ages; Advocate scientific culture, oppose obscurantism, and get rid of the shackles of the church on people's thoughts; Affirm human rights, oppose theocracy, and abandon all authority and traditional dogma as the basis of theology and scholasticism.
Supporting centralization and opposing feudal separatism are the main ideas of humanism. Among them, the representative works are Dante's Divine Comedy, Boccaccio's decameron, Petrarch's Song, Machiavelli's The Prince, and rabelais's Biography of the Giant.
Renaissance art praised the beauty of the human body, claiming that the proportion of the human body is the most harmonious in the world, and applied it to architecture. Although a series of paintings and sculptures still focus on religious stories, they all show the scenes of ordinary people and pull God to the ground.