Listen to part of a lecture in an Art History class.
請聽藝術(shù)史課上的部分內(nèi)容。
As I was saying, the Renaissance period, which started in the 1400s Europe,
就像我在說的,文藝復(fù)興時(shí)期15世紀(jì)開始于歐洲,
the Renaissance was still a pretty religious period, and that’s reflected in the artwork of that time.
文藝復(fù)興時(shí)期的宗教色彩還是非常濃厚的,而這反映在了當(dāng)時(shí)的藝術(shù)作品中。
But artists were starting to experiment with a more secular point of view as well, a tendency to also use the natural world as the subject matter for their art.
但是當(dāng)時(shí)的藝術(shù)家們也在開始嘗試一種更現(xiàn)世的視角,一種也使用自然的世界作為他們藝術(shù)主題的趨勢。
And there were different ways that these natural themes were explored.
對這些自然主題的探索有不同的方式。
For instance, many artists would paint portraits, while others, although this was more common in Northern Europe, would make landscapes the subject of their works.
比如,很多藝術(shù)家會畫肖像,雖然這在北歐更常見一些,但其他人會把山水作為他們作品的主題。
But today I’d like to consider an influential Italian Renaissance artist, Leon Battista Alberti, who took a slightly different approach.
不過今天我想來講講一位頗具影響力的意大利文藝復(fù)興藝術(shù)家Leon Battista Alberti,他的做法有些不同。
Leon Battista Alberti was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, poet,
Leon Battista Alberti是一位畫家、雕塑家、建筑家、音樂家、詩人,
very wide-ranging interests, like Da Vinci or Michelangelo, the sort of guy for whom the term “Renaissance Man” was in fact created.
他的興趣非常廣泛,就像達(dá)芬奇或米開朗琪羅一樣,“文藝復(fù)興人”(形容多才多藝的人)這個(gè)詞實(shí)際上就是為他們這種人創(chuàng)造的。