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It is a repeated view among scholars that the humanistic features of ancient Greek thought are the roots of humanism 2,000 years later. [28] Other predecessor movements that sometimes use the same or equivalent vocabulary to modern Western humanism can be found in Chinese philosophy and religions such as Taoism and Confucianism. [29]
Greek art began in the Cycladic and Minoan civilization, and gave birth to Western classical art in the subsequent Geometric, Archaic and Classical periods (with further developments during the Hellenistic Period). It absorbed influences of Eastern civilizations, of Roman art and its patrons, and the new religion of Orthodox Christianity in the ...
Greek art emphasized humanism along with the human mind and the human body's beauty. [8] Greek youths trained and competed in athletic contests in the nude. A great contribution to the contrapposto pose was the concept of a canon of proportions, in which mathematical properties are used to create proportions. [9]
The art of ancient Greece is usually divided stylistically into four periods: the Geometric, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic. The Geometric age is usually dated from about 1000 BC, although in reality little is known about art in Greece during the preceding 200 years, traditionally known as the Greek Dark Ages.
Renaissance humanism is a worldview centered on the nature and importance of humanity that emerged from the study of Classical antiquity. This first began in Italy and then spread across Western Europe in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. During the period, the term humanist (Italian: umanista) referred to teachers and students of the ...
The School of Athens (Italian: Scuola di Atene) is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between 1509 and 1511 as part of a commission by Pope Julius II to decorate the rooms now called the Stanze di Raffaello in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. The fresco depicts a congregation of ancient philosophers ...
Kritios Boy.Marble, c. 480 BC. Acropolis Museum, Athens.. The marble Kritios Boy or Kritian Boy belongs to the Early Classical period of ancient Greek sculpture.It is the first statue from classical antiquity known to use contrapposto; [1] Kenneth Clark called it "the first beautiful nude in art" [2] The Kritios Boy is thus named because it is attributed, on slender evidence, [2] to Kritios ...
Leonardo Bruni. Leonardo Bruni[a] or Leonardo Aretino (c. 1370 – March 9, 1444) was an Italian humanist, historian and statesman, often recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance. [1] He has been called the first modern historian. [2] He was the earliest person to write using the three-period view of history ...