The history of Western arts is reduced largely to history of European arts from the Middle Ages and the classical Greco-Roman arts; and the beginning of arts history with the civilizations that are considered precedents (Egypt and the Middle East). The artistic manifestations of earlier times in Europe and the Mediterranean basin are very different, because although some are very distant in time and have a great cultural distance (prehistoric arts); other non (reclaimed wood wall art).
This proportionality reached our days mainly due to conservation of Vitruvian texts during the Middle Ages, although it is likely that different treaties reflect different rules. In field of architecture, the most characteristic buildings of Greek arts are the temples, which are usually classified according to type of plants and order or style columns.
In antiquity, arts was associated with the formal requirements of religious rituals: most of monuments and elements with undeniable arts value that have survived (painting, sculpture, architecture), were intended to symbolize the royal power and myths celestial world. This view of arts is especially between the Egyptians and Babylonians. In Egyptian arts is a celebration of eternal life, manifesting in early days the idea that Pharaoh was still living after his physical death. In Egypt, from the earliest dynasties, Pharaoh was conceived as responsible for Maat, Universal Order and Justice, and this will be reflected in arts.
This kind of arts is often called Renaissance classicism. The three most influential Renaissance arts are Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti and Raphael Sanzio, belonging to Italian Renaissance. Another figure equally important but less known Renaissance (in this case, of Flemish painting) is Jan van Eyck, Dutch painter.
In European arts, Renaissance Classicism led on two different movements: Mannerism and Baroque. The first, a reaction against the idealist perfection of Classicism, employed distortion of light and space in work in order to emphasize its emotional content and emotions of artist. Baroque arts led representation techniques from the Renaissance to new heights, emphasizing detail and movement inir pursuit of beauty. Perhaps the best known Baroque painters are Rembrandt, Rubens and Velazquez.
The Greeks are responsible for a concept of arts that permeate virtually all Western European arts production for over 2000 years. The Greek word for arts, techne, which also means arts or trade, will be associated with the idea of mimesis, which considers that in real world, the arts expression should represent the search for the ideal.
Baroque arts is often seen as parts of a strategy of Counter or Catholic reform: the arts element of rise of spiritual life of Catholic Church. To some arts historians the emphasis Baroque arts gives grandeur is seen as a reflection of Absolutism. Louis XIV of France said: "I am the embodiment of grandeur", and many Baroque arts served kings seeking the same goal. However, the Baroque love of detail is often regarded as the result of excessive ornamentalism, somehow, vulgar, especially when the Baroque evolves into decorative Rococo style.
As time passed, many arts were demonstrating contrary to ornamentalism of previous styles, and seek to return to prior arts, simpler, Renaissance, forming the style that will be known as Neoclassicism. The neoclassical was the arts component of intellectual movement known as the Enlightenment, which was equally idealistic. Ingres, Canova and Jacques-Louis David are among the best known neoclassical. In architecture theorists will adopt new forms of Roman and Renaissance arts, but defending the rationality and functionality of buildings and discarding the dynamism and ornamental elements that had characterized the previous stage. Another feature of neoclassical architecture is its monumentality, used in order to compare the kingdoms and empires of time with the grandeur of Roman Empire.
This proportionality reached our days mainly due to conservation of Vitruvian texts during the Middle Ages, although it is likely that different treaties reflect different rules. In field of architecture, the most characteristic buildings of Greek arts are the temples, which are usually classified according to type of plants and order or style columns.
In antiquity, arts was associated with the formal requirements of religious rituals: most of monuments and elements with undeniable arts value that have survived (painting, sculpture, architecture), were intended to symbolize the royal power and myths celestial world. This view of arts is especially between the Egyptians and Babylonians. In Egyptian arts is a celebration of eternal life, manifesting in early days the idea that Pharaoh was still living after his physical death. In Egypt, from the earliest dynasties, Pharaoh was conceived as responsible for Maat, Universal Order and Justice, and this will be reflected in arts.
This kind of arts is often called Renaissance classicism. The three most influential Renaissance arts are Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti and Raphael Sanzio, belonging to Italian Renaissance. Another figure equally important but less known Renaissance (in this case, of Flemish painting) is Jan van Eyck, Dutch painter.
In European arts, Renaissance Classicism led on two different movements: Mannerism and Baroque. The first, a reaction against the idealist perfection of Classicism, employed distortion of light and space in work in order to emphasize its emotional content and emotions of artist. Baroque arts led representation techniques from the Renaissance to new heights, emphasizing detail and movement inir pursuit of beauty. Perhaps the best known Baroque painters are Rembrandt, Rubens and Velazquez.
The Greeks are responsible for a concept of arts that permeate virtually all Western European arts production for over 2000 years. The Greek word for arts, techne, which also means arts or trade, will be associated with the idea of mimesis, which considers that in real world, the arts expression should represent the search for the ideal.
Baroque arts is often seen as parts of a strategy of Counter or Catholic reform: the arts element of rise of spiritual life of Catholic Church. To some arts historians the emphasis Baroque arts gives grandeur is seen as a reflection of Absolutism. Louis XIV of France said: "I am the embodiment of grandeur", and many Baroque arts served kings seeking the same goal. However, the Baroque love of detail is often regarded as the result of excessive ornamentalism, somehow, vulgar, especially when the Baroque evolves into decorative Rococo style.
As time passed, many arts were demonstrating contrary to ornamentalism of previous styles, and seek to return to prior arts, simpler, Renaissance, forming the style that will be known as Neoclassicism. The neoclassical was the arts component of intellectual movement known as the Enlightenment, which was equally idealistic. Ingres, Canova and Jacques-Louis David are among the best known neoclassical. In architecture theorists will adopt new forms of Roman and Renaissance arts, but defending the rationality and functionality of buildings and discarding the dynamism and ornamental elements that had characterized the previous stage. Another feature of neoclassical architecture is its monumentality, used in order to compare the kingdoms and empires of time with the grandeur of Roman Empire.
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