文艺复兴时代的艺术理论

Renaissance Art Theories

文艺复兴艺术理论最初是一种意大利现象。它于1438年始于L.B.阿尔贝蒂的《论绘画》。到了16世纪末,新的形势促使一种艺术理论的产生,这一艺术理论将人文主义观点和见解与拜占廷及中世纪的图像信条结合起来。因此从结构上说,文艺复兴艺术理论是由宗教界关于图像的功能和作用的思想与世俗关于视觉艺术的定义、历史观和批评思想构成的。它们修正了视觉艺术在艺术和科学等级制度中的地位,提供了有关艺术创造力的详细论述,借用修辞学和诗学中的专门术语为绘画下定义。

Renaissance Art Theory is initially an Italian phenomenon.It begins in 1438 with Leon Battista Alberti’s Della Pitura.By the late sixteenth century the new situation produced an art theory that combined humanist view with Byzantine and medieval doctrines on images.Thus the fabric of Renaissance Art Theories consists of ideas on the function and use of images geared towards the religious sphere intertwined with secular views on the definition,history and criticism of the visual arts.They revised the position of the visual arts in the hierarchy of arts and sciences,provided detailed accounts of artistic creation￡defined painting in terms borrowed from rhetoric and poetics.