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【版本:新人教 册别:选择性必修三】
UNIT 1 ART
Reading and Thinking:
Learn about different painting styles in Western art
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Learning Objectives
To understand the passage about history of Western
paintings;
To appreciate Chinese and Western-style paintings
and describe them;
To learn about different painting styles in Western art.
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What do you know about this painting?
School of Athens 《雅典学院》
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The fresco shows many famous philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, and Pythagoras, though it is not clear who they all are. Although all shown together, they were not all contemporaries (同时期的;同一时代的).
School of Athens
The painting is of the fresco (湿壁画) painting School of Athens by Raphael (拉斐尔, 1483-1520). It was painted between 1509 and 1511 on a wall in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City (梵蒂冈城的使徒宫殿).
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Fresco painting
Fresco painting is a technique of painting on wet plaster (灰泥). Water is mixed with dry powdered paint (研磨好的干粉颜料), so the painting mixes with the plaster and becomes part of the wall.
该技法兴起于13世纪的意大利,16世纪趋于圆熟。到了画家拉斐尔(Raphael)时其技法已经完全成熟。
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文艺复兴三杰之一
Raphael
Raphael (1483-1520) was the architect of the high renaissance (文艺复兴), a short period in Italian history when many incredible works of art were produced. He produced many works of art and, along with Michelangelo (米开朗基罗) and Leonardo da Vinci (达芬奇), is considered the third great master of the period. He is best known for his frescoes in the Vatican.
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1、亚历山大大帝:希腊马其顿王,建立了横跨欧亚非三大洲的亚历山大帝国。
2、安提西尼:苏格拉底弟子,犬儒学派的创始人,他认为人存在的唯一目的就是追求幸福。
3、色诺芬:苏格拉底弟子,擅长军事学、文学、历史学,著有《希腊史》与《斯巴达政体论》等著作。
4、苏格拉底:穿绿袍与人争辩者。古希腊哲学三贤之一,西方哲学的奠基人。
Why did the painter put all these people living at different times together?
Though these people were from different times, they all symbolised human pursuit of wisdom and truth.
Why do you think the painter created this work of art? What idea did the painter want to convey?
To praise the so-called “Golden Age” in history and convey a yearning for a free and open future.