1, Dante (1265- 132 1). The pioneer of the Renaissance, the Renaissance originated in northern Italy. It is generally believed that Dante was the first representative, and his masterpiece was The Divine Comedy. His works first criticized and exposed the corruption and stupidity of medieval religious rule in an implicit way. He wrote in the local dialect instead of Latin, the official literary language of medieval Europe. He believed that the ancient Greek and Roman times were the most perfect times of human nature, and it was against nature to suppress human nature in the Middle Ages. Although he studied Latin literature deeply and extensively, he wrote a large number of lyric poems in the form of sonnets in Italian dialect, which was warmly welcomed by city and state rulers.
2. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), an outstanding representative of the Italian Renaissance, was a humanist. Decameron, his masterpiece, criticized religious conservatism and advocated "happiness on earth", which was regarded as the declaration of the Renaissance.
3. Petrarch is an Italian poet. /kloc-0 was born in arezzo on July 20th, 304, and/kloc-0 died in Alcatel on July 9th, 374. His masterpiece is a collection of songs. His father was a noble family and lawyer in Florence. He went into exile with his father since childhood and then studied law. After his father died, he devoted himself to literature.
4. Leonardo da Vinci (1452- 15 19) was the most famous artist, sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist, master of science, literary theorist, great philosopher, poet, musician and inventor in the Italian Renaissance. Just because he is a generalist. Therefore, he is also called "the most perfect representative of the Renaissance". He was born in Finch, a suburb of Florence, and died in France. The mural The Last Supper, the altar painting The Virgin in the Rock and the portrait painting Mona Lisa are three masterpieces in his life. These three works are one of the treasures left by Leonardo da Vinci to the world art treasure house and the cornerstone of European art.
5. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475- 1564), a great Italian painter, sculptor and architect in the Renaissance, is the representative of the highest peak of sculpture art in the Renaissance. From 65438 to 0496, Michelangelo came to Rome. He created the first batch of representative works, such as Bacchus, Dionysus and Mourning for Christ. In 2008+050 1 year, he returned to Florence and completed the world-famous David in four years. In Rome in 2005, he was ordered by Pope Julius II to build the Pope's tomb, which was stopped in 2006. It took four years and five months to finish the ceiling mural of the famous Sistine Chapel. 15 13, the construction of the Pope's mausoleum resumed, and Michelangelo created the famous "Moses, Bound Slave and Dying Slave". +0519-15438/466 In Florence, he created the greatest work of his life-the group sculpture of medici family Mausoleum in the Church of San Lorenzo. 1536, Michelangelo returned to the Ting Church in Romasis, and spent nearly six years creating the great mural "Doomsday Judgment". After that, he lived in Rome, engaged in sculpture, architecture and a little painting, until1February 564 1568.
Renaissance in western European countries, 15 century later extended to other western European countries.
British playwright: Shakespeare is an outstanding representative of British humanism. His works include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.
French writer: rabelais is one of the representatives of the French Renaissance. His works: The novel Biography of the Giant advocates liberating human hunger to overcome darkness and ignorance.
Representative of German Humanism: Erasmus's Ode to a Fool
Spanish writer: Cervantes' novel Don Quixote
Science in the Renaissance:
Copernicus, a Polish scientist, founded the "sun-centered theory", which shocked the scientific and ideological circles and shook the foundation of feudal theology.
German scholar: Kepler inherited and developed Copernicus's thought and discovered the law of planets orbiting the sun in elliptical orbits.
The telescope made by Italian scientist Galileo proved Copernicus's "sun-centered theory", and he was regarded as the founder of modern experimental science.
Outstanding thinkers such as Italian Bruno and British Francis Bacon advocated materialism and made contributions to the development of science.