Renaissance is originated from Italy in the 14th century. Renaissance movement changed European society, culture, ideas, science and art. Large quantities of great creations of all aspects sprang up like mushrooms. Oil painting can be considered as a dazzling diamond among all the creations. Art in renaissance period had got to the peak of art phylogeny since ancient Greek and Roman. Classical art style and skill revived in oil painting under the recalling of new thought and spirit.
Among lots of artists in renaissance, Ciotto di Bondone was the pioneer. His contribution was mainly on reviving the conventional realism painting technique of Greek and Roman. Besides, his masterpieces expressed some kind of brand new spirit of times. Masaccio and Botticelli were both outstanding artists good at oil painting from Italy. All of they created many oil paintings oriented with religion. But religion oil paintings by them and other painters in renaissance times were in great difference from the ones before. We can find that, for the same gods, their figures in renaissance creations are similar to human being; they are not inaccessible any more.
Losing yourself in renaissance oil paintings, you will find the humanism hiding behind. You can feel you are a real man, a independent man stand on the earth bravely altogether with your peers. So, when sometimes you are lost yourself, just comply with the call of humanism, what can strike on the closed door of your soul.
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