World of artistic culture and education table. The world of artistic culture of enlightenment

Author: Boryaev Artem, 7b grade student
MBU Lyceum No. 19, Tolyatti

Literature

In any literary work of the Enlightenment
three conditions are met: the plot is entertaining,
instructive and allegorical character
narratives.
A new genre of novel has appeared - the epic of private life
an individual person. A person is interested in himself, outside
his social status
The rise of the social and moralizing genre
novel of education.
Becoming a hero who makes a lot of mistakes, but still...
makes a choice in favor of good. Faith in human strength.
Ability to make responsible decisions and
achieve your goals
The primary role in the perception of the world is assigned to
sensations.

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)

Talented English writer
publicist and publisher, has written more than 500
books, pamphlets and magazines on various
topics (politics, economics, crime,
religion, marriage, psychology, etc.)
Founders of the English novel and
economic journalism
British intelligence chief
Highest degree
A businessman with an adventurous streak
human wisdom is a skill
adapt to circumstances
I was in prison and was with the shameful
and remain calm despite
external thunderstorms.
a pillar for a panflette - a mockery of the church
Promoted bourgeois sanity, spoke
in defense of religious tolerance, freedom of religion and
freedom of speech.

Novel "The Life and Amazing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe"

Immortal novel in 3 parts
(only part 1 was successful)
written as fiction
autobiography of a sailor from York,
who, after the shipwreck,
spent 28 years in an uninhabited
island where he encountered
various difficulties and
dangers. Events are recorded in
form of memories and create
realistic picture.
The main idea of ​​the novel: “Man can do anything”

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, poet, philosopher and
public figure.
Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral
Defender of the rights of ordinary Irish people
Was critical of many
ideals of the enlighteners, saw that
their noble ideas have not changed
people, did not eradicate vices, but
bourgeois society is far from
perfection.

Novel "Gulliver's Travels"

"Gulliver's Travels" -
Swift's greatest achievement
Like all genuine
satirists, Swift - first of all
moralist denouncing depravity
and the stupidity of the human race in
the name of virtue and common sense.
Swift was irritated by the bourgeois
well-being, hence
edifying, moralizing
the nature of his works.

Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799)

Famous French playwright and
publicist.
In his works Beaumarchais
makes fun of:
Fought against all forms of oppression,
injustice, tyranny.
Proved how outdated and
unfair french
All outstanding people
coming out of the third estate..."
legal proceedings
He denounced the entire social system, class
privileges, laws, regime of absolute monarchy.
His personal protest was social in nature

Aphorisms from works

Stupidity and vanity are inseparable friends.
To live is to fight; to fight is to live
What if I'm better than my reputation?
Honest people love women, cheaters adore them.
He is just honest enough not to be hanged.
What is a nobleman? This is a man who gave himself only
labor to be born.
Before I told you everything, but now I don't tell you anything
I'm hiding.
In my opinion, if the authorities do not harm us,
then this is already a considerable blessing.
Drink when there is no thirst, and at any time
making love is the only thing that distinguishes us from
other animals.

Best works
Crazy day or
Marriage of Figaro
A masterpiece of the stage
Seville
barber
Accusatory
act against
society and
its foundations.
art.
Public
political act
Louis XVI said: "If
to be consistent then
to allow
production of this play
the Bastille must be destroyed.
This man is mocking
everything that should be respected in
state."
Criminal mother, or
Second Tartuffe
Made fun of the aristocracy and
debunked her, contrasting
to her the image of a man from the people,
who already feels his
strength and demands self-respect,
to your dignity
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Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)

German poet, philosopher,
historian, art theorist and
playwright, representative
romantic destination in
literature, professor of history
and military doctor
Entered world history
literature as fiery
protector of human
personality.

Best works

1781- “Robbers”.
1784 - “Cunning and Love”
1799 - dramatic
Wallenstein trilogy
1800 - “Mary Stuart”
1801 - “The Maid of Orleans”
1804- “William Tell”

Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832)

German poet, founder
German literature of modern times,
thinker and naturalist.
Leader of the literary revolt against
principles of the Enlightenment theorists.
Organizer of balls, masquerades,
pranks, amateur performances,
hunting and picnics, park trustee,
architectural monuments and museums
Member of the Ducal Privy Council
Minister of State (in charge of laying roads,
recruiting, public finances,
public works, mining projects)

Best works

Tragedy "Faust"
Famous tragedy
classic of the poetic genre
Tells about fate
Faust, who drags out
pessimistic
existence and deep
disappointed in life.
Lost all meaning
life Faust sells his soul
for the sake of eating the fruits of the world
pleasures.
... Life years
It was not in vain; is clear to me
The final conclusion of earthly wisdom:
Only he is worthy of life and freedom,
Who goes to battle for them every day!

Painting

For painting of the first half of the 18th century.
characterized by stylization of Greek art,
introduced heroization into the artistic palette and
some romanticism
Subjects - only love, erotic
Favorite heroes are nymphs, bacchantes, Dianas.
Venus exercising its endless
"triumphs" and "toilets"
Styles: baroque, classicism, rococo,
sentimentalism

Francois Boucher (1703-1770)

One of the most prominent Rococo artists
The main theme of creativity: pleasure,
enjoying the delights of life, its
idyllic perception
Academician, professor, director
Academy.
Illustrator, theatrical designer
productions, royal decorator
palaces, the king's first painter
Reflected the tastes and moods of the era of Louis XV
His works are full of light and air, sensuality and
light mysterious irony, filled with a feeling of bliss and
pleasure.

Landscape around Beauvais
Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Artist in the studio.
Self-portrait

Madame Pompadour
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Triumph of Venus
National Museum, Stockholm

Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)

French painter and draftsman,
founder and greatest master
Rococo style
Main theme: “gallant festivities”
the world of poetic dreams, balls and
masquerades.
Best works:
“Savoyard with a Marmot”, Hermitage, St. Petersburg
"Festival of Love", "Society in the Park", Dresden
“Bivouac”, State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
"Tricky Proposal"
"The Capricious One", Hermitage, St. Petersburg
"Mezzeten", Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera”, “Gilles”, Louvre, Paris
“Shop sign of E. F. Gersen”, Art Gallery, Berlin-Dahlem.

Predicament
Dance
Joys of life

Hunting holidays
Venice holiday

William Hogarth (1697 – 1764)

English artist, founder and
major representative of the national
painting school, illustrator, author
satirical engravings, discoverer
new genres in painting and graphics.
The artist has many of his works,
influenced by ideas
philosophers of the Enlightenment, subjugated
the task of education with the help
artistic creativity
moral principle in man and
eradication of vices.

Fashionable marriage.
Conclusion of a marriage contract
The fishing party
Graham children

Self-portrait with a dog
Tate Gallery, London
Girl with shrimp
National Gallery, London

Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin (1699-1779)

French painter
Master of still life and genre paintings
compositions, advisor and treasurer
Academy of Arts
The main theme of his works
daily home life
Parisian inhabitants, transmitted
in a calm, intimate,
realistic manner.

From the market
Louvre, Paris
Cook
National Gallery of Art,
Washington

Laundress
Silver cup
Still life with attributes
arts
Laundress

Jacques Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)

French artist, bright
representative of Rococo.
Subtle coloring, witty
imagery and lightness,
a relaxed letter is given
his work is irresistible
liveliness; even the most
erotic stories never
seem vulgar

"Kiss on the sly.
Girl with a groundhog

Swing
Reading young woman

Jean Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805)

Famous French
genre painter and portraitist
In the genre of family life he is not
equal in French painting.
Although the picture scenes are banal,
sentimental and theatrical, but
the figures on them are grouped
in excellence
His portraits are full of similarities,
life, expressiveness, feeling.
Although women's heads wear
the print is too artificial,
exaggerated expressiveness
but they are unusually graceful.

Portrait of a boy
A little boy

guitar player
Spoiled child
Father's curse
Louvre, Paris

Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828)

French sculptor,
outstanding master
psychological portrait
He knew how to convey his character
models through carefully
chosen pose, expressive
facial expressions and straightforward
glance. For more
immediacy of impression
refused careful finishing
statues, preserving traces of their chisel
Among its characteristic details
sculptural portraits - beautiful
and spectacular folds of clothing.

Voltaire
B. Franklin
In the sculptor's workshop
Portrait of a wife
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Reynolds Joshua (1723-1792)

English historical and
portrait painter
Art theorist
First President of the Royal
Academy of Arts
Member of the Royal London
society.
Member of the Society of Amateurs,
created for the purpose of studying
ancient art.

de Beaufort
Return of peasants from the market
Portrait of Georgiana,
Duchess of Devonshire

Music

During the Age of Enlightenment there is an unprecedented rise
musical art.
Opera becomes a synthetic art
combining music, singing and complex
dramatic action.
Reached the highest level of classical art
instrumental music.
The rise of comic opera.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

The greatest genius of the world
musical art
The owner of a phenomenal
musical ear, memory and
ability to improvise
In all musical forms
reached the highest level of success
(symphony, concert, divertissement and
quartet, opera and mass, sonata and trio).
Creator of more than 600 works
Serenade No. 13 Mozart's creativity was the highest
expression of progressive achievements
musical culture of his time.

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

Austrian composer
Representative of the Vienna
classical school
One of the founders
symphonic genre and
string Quartet.
His musical legacy
includes more than 100 large
works and hundreds of small
works
Serenade

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

German composer,
representative of the Baroque era
Virtuoso organist
Music teacher
Wrote more than 1000 works
During his lifetime his works
seemed to secular society
too serious, and the church
rejected them for not being enough
God-fearing character
Toccata and Fugue in D minor

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Moonlight Sonata
German composer and pianist
Representative of the Vienna
classical school"
He wrote in all genres, including
opera, music for plays,
choral works
The most significant in his
heritage are considered
instrumental works:
piano, violin and
cello sonatas, concerts
for piano, for violin,
quartets, overtures, symphonies.

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Culture of Enlightenment

Daniel Defoe English writer 1660 – 1731 Author of the novel “The Life and Amazing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe”

Robinson Crusoe Robinson found himself on a desert island after a shipwreck. He lived there for 24 years, tamed animals, grew plants and saved a man whom he named Friday.

Jonathan Swift Irish priest 1667 – 1745 Author of Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver The work was written as a parody of the works of enlighteners. The Land of Lilliputians and Giants is a caricature of England in the 18th century.

Pierre Beaumarchais French playwright 1732 – 1799 Author of The Marriage of Figaro

“The Marriage of Figaro” The hero is a charming, clever servant. The play ridicules the shortcomings of the aristocracy

Friedrich Schiller German playwright 1759 – 1805 The heroes of his works are fighters against tyranny and the treachery of power

Schiller's plays "The Robbers" "Cunning and Love" "Mary Stuart"

Johann Wolfgang Goethe German playwright 1749 – 1832 Author of the drama “Faust”, which was created over 60 years

“Faust” The main character is the doctor, alchemist Faust, who lived in the 16th century. Faust made a deal with Mephistopheles (the devil) to become free

François Boucher French painter 1703 – 1770 The artist’s elegant paintings decorated the interiors of gentlemen during the time of Louis XV

Antoine Watteau 1684 – 1721 The works are dedicated to the holidays and entertainments of the royal court The paintings are filled with feelings and experiences

"Tricky Proposal"

"The Joys of the Ball"

Simeon Chardin French artist 1699 – 1779 His paintings are dedicated to ordinary people, their everyday work “Return from the market”

"Still life with attributes of art"

Jacques Louis David French artist 1748 – 1825 In his work he turned to historical, ancient subjects

"Oath of the Horatii"

Johann Sebastian Bach German composer 1685 – 1750 Works dedicated to biblical subjects

“Matthew Passion” The work tells about the last days of Jesus, his suffering, sacrifice in the name of people

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Austrian composer 1756 – 1791 At the age of 12 he wrote his first opera, and at 14 he became an academician

“Requiem” (peace) The author’s last work, “Requiem,” was commissioned by an unknown person in memory of his wife, but it seemed to Mozart that he was writing for himself

Symphony No. 6 and Moonlight Sonata

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 - 1828 A famous composer who continued to create beauty despite a serious illness. The “Eroica” Symphony is dedicated to the revolutions of the 18th century.


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TOPIC: The world of artistic culture of the Enlightenment.

The purpose of the lesson: acquaintance with the great writers, musicians, artists of Europe during the Enlightenment.

Lesson objectives:

    To consolidate the ideological principles of the Enlightenment era;

    Form and develop the ability to work with various information sources, use them when preparing answers to questions.

Lesson type: a lesson in studying and initially consolidating new knowledge.

Pedagogical technology: problem-based learning technology, cluster, group work.

Planned results

Comprehend the social and moral experience of previous generations; demonstrate the ability to determine their position and responsible behavior in modern society.

They are able to independently determine goals and draw up plans, independently implement, monitor and adjust lesson activities, and use various resources to achieve goals.

During the classes.

    Organizing time.

    Hello guys! Smile at your group neighbors, guests, now sit down and wish your classmates successful work.

II . Motivation stage.

XVIIIThe century, the history of which we began to study, historians called the Age of Enlightenment and the time of transformation. In the last lesson, we talked about changes in society that were warned by freethinkers, later called enlighteners.

Now remember who was called the enlightener? ( Enlightener - a person engaged in , dissemination of knowledge)

- Name one of the educators?

Three tips will help you determine the topic of our lesson today.

And Arina Ershova will give us the first clue. (Pushkin’s poem “Oh, how many wonderful discoveries we have” + music)

Second clue: a slide with a portrait of Mozart.

Third: slide with a picture.

Based on this, try to formulate the topic of our lesson today.

Children formulate the topic of the lesson and set tasks.

III. Learning new material.

Group work with various sources of information. Fill out the “Workers of Enlightenment” cluster. Each group completes the task and, after 13 minutes, submits a report on the work done.

1 group

2nd group

3 group

4 group

Each group introduces its own figure, the rest fill out a table for him.

Mutual assessment:

- Based on what you had to do in the tasks, how do you think you managed to get the result?

- Did you complete the task completely?

Physical education minute

(Yes, we clap, no, we stand up and explain why not)

    In England during the bourgeois revolution there were two protest movements - the Levellers and the Diggers (yes)

    It happened that soldiers forced diggers off the land and burned their houses (yes)

    Mainly peasants joined the ranks of the levellers (no)

    Oliver Cromwell is the leader of the Diggers (no)

    The established church in England began to be called Anglican (yes).

    Two parties arose in England - the Tories and the Whigs (yes)

    The Reformation was not one of the causes of the Thirty Years' War, since there were no contradictions between Catholics and Protestants (no)

    One of the reasons for the Thirty Years' War was the division of the colonies (yes)

    The Spanish king advocated the independence of nation states (no)

    The Thirty Years' War involved not individual states, but coalitions of states (yes)

IV. Working with a table. Consolidation.

Exchange tables and fill out (children make a pair, then change partners, 2 minutes for each pair).

Let's listen to messages about two more figures of the Enlightenment (advanced task).

Checking the book "Thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment"

Task: Connect, write the answer in the table

Thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment

Country of birth

His ideas

1 . Voltaire

1 . England

1 . The feudal order violates the rights of personal freedom and private property

2 .Montesquieu

2 . Switzerland

2 .The main source of the people’s well-being is labor

    Smith

3 .France

3 .Accept neither the rich nor the poor.”

4 .Turgot

4 .Separation of powers into executive, judicial, legislative

    Rousseau

5. The king must be enlightened. Social order can be changed peacefully

Correct answer: Thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment

Country of birth

His ideas

Test

2. And the author of the novel “Gulliver’s Travels”:

A) Daniel Defoe B) Jonathan Swift C) Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3. Jean Baptiste is

A) artist B) composer C) writer

A) Mozart B) Bach C) Beethoven

5.Who painted the painting “Girl with Shrimp”:

A) Hogarth B) Baptiste C) Watteau

Exchange of cards and mutual verification.

V . Reflection.

    What goal and objectives were set before us at the beginning of the lesson?

    Were you able to achieve them?

- Now let's go back to our problem that confronted us at the beginning of the lesson. Did we manage to learn about the figures of the Enlightenment?

- Tell me, what would you like to learn about the Age of Enlightenment in the future?

Making marks.

- Based on your level of success, determine the mark that you can set for yourself.

Trace your left hand on a piece of paper. On each finger we write: “I understood...”, “I didn’t understand...”, “I liked...”, “I didn’t like...”, on the thumb the grade you give yourself for the lesson. , in the palm of your hand “My mood” (draw a smiley face).

VI . Homework (on the board)

Paragraph 20, table. Prepare reports about one of the enlighteners of the 17th–18th centuries.

Sections: History and social studies

Planned results of studying the material:

Students will learn that the 18th century is a page in the history of world culture. Outstanding creators of literature, fine arts, and music strove for human enlightenment and dreamed of correcting human morals with the help of art. Their works instilled in a person confidence in his own abilities, affirmed the power of the mind, the ability to withstand any test, overcome all difficulties and adversity. The ideal hero of the enlightenment.

Development of student skills:

Acquaintance with artistic culture will allow students to enrich previously acquired skills and abilities in mastering historical and cultural material, and to understand the continuity of the cultures of the Renaissance and Enlightenment.
Immersion in the world of art contributes to the formation of skills necessary for a competent viewer, reader, listener

Teaching methods: illustrative-reproductive, partially search methods

Forms of organization of educational activities: explanations, story, conversation, creation of pedagogical situations for solving cognitive tasks, exchange of impressions.

Lesson type: combined

During the classes

1. Message of the topic and purpose of the lesson (Slide 1-3)

2. Homework is checked by talking with students

Questions for conversation (slide 4)

  • Think about whether there is continuity in the views on man and society between the humanists of the 15th and 16th centuries and the enlighteners of the 18th century. If they exist, please indicate which ones?
  • Think about what was new in the views of the French enlighteners compared to the humanists?
  • Rousseau wrote: “ If you want to give strength to the state, then bring the extreme levels as close as possible; admit neither the rich nor the poor" Do you share Rousseau's point of view? Is it possible to solve this problem in practice?

3. Preparing to perceive something new.

Today we have an unusual lesson. This lesson is a virtual excursion into the 18th century, which is often called gallant. At different points in his life, a person can turn to works of art from other eras, trying to find in them answers to questions that are important to him today. And then the creators of art become his contemporaries.

Which artists of the Enlightenment would you call your contemporary?

And experts in the field of literature, painting and music will help us get acquainted with outstanding representatives of art.

4. Main content of the lesson

During the tour you must fill out the table (slide 5)
Lesson plan – (slide 6)

  1. Humanists and educators
  2. The Extraordinary Adventures of Robinson and Gulliver
  3. School and Department of Education
  4. Marquises, washerwomen and ancient heroes
  5. Opera-like works by cantor Bach
  6. Your name is Mozart
  7. Rebel Composer

So, I present to you the first guide - teacher of Russian language and literature - Gaberman S.V. (the teacher presents the material in the volume of the textbook, relies on the material already studied by the students, and at the end offers questions to check initial mastery (slides 7-12)

Quiz questions:

  1. What novel was written for adults, but in our time has become children's literature? (" The Life and Amazing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.)
  2. What novel was a parody of the English constitutional monarchy? (" Gulliver's Travels."
  3. What work did Goethe take 60 years to create? " (Faust")
  4. About what work did Louis the 16th say, “The Bastille must be destroyed to allow this on stage!” (“The Marriage of Figaro.”)
  5. Name the work of F. Schiller, where young lovers “defend their love at the cost of death” "? ("Cunning and Love")

A gallant age cannot be imagined without magnificent paintings. Fine arts teacher Bochanova T.M. will introduce you to them. (slide 13-19)

The material for the teacher's story is in the volume of the textbook.

Three great composers defined the musical style of the 18th century. Nelmayer L.E., history teacher, will introduce you to them. (slide 20-23)
(Excursion in the volume of the textbook, accompanied by short musical inserts)

J. S. Bach – “St. Matthew Passion”
W.A.Mozart – Symphony No. 40
L.V. Beethoven – sonata No. 14 “Moonlight” or others

Checking the completion of the table (if the table is not completed in full, finish it at home)

5. Consolidation

We turn to the problematic question posed at the beginning of the lesson.
Which of the artists of the Enlightenment would you call your contemporary and why? (student answers).
Let's summarize (slide 24)

  • The 18th century is a bright page in the history of world culture,
  • Outstanding creators of literature, fine arts, and music strove for human enlightenment and dreamed of correcting human morals with the help of art.
  • Their works instilled in a person confidence in his own abilities, affirmed the power of the mind, the ability to withstand any test, overcome all difficulties and adversity.
  • The ideal hero of the Enlightenment was a person capable of heroic deeds and self-sacrifice.

6. Homework step 20 complete the table.

Other tasks to choose from (slide 25-26)

  1. In Beaumarchais's comedy "The Barber of Seville" there is a dialogue:
    "Rosina: You are always scolding our poor age.
    Bartolo: Please forgive my insolence, but what did he give us that we could praise him for?”
    What would you answer to a comedy character who bequeathed humanity the Age of Enlightenment?
  2. Solve the crossword
  3. Make a quiz on the topic “The Age of Enlightenment. - the desire for the kingdom of reason"

7. Summing up the lesson.

Field of culture: fine arts

Actor: Giotto (Italy)

Works:“Madonna and Child and Two Angels”, painted cross, “Crucifixion”, “Assumption of Mary”. Most often he created frescoes.

Ideas: was the first to show the depth of space in his works, turning a flat two-dimensional image into a three-dimensional one. Thus, he overcame the canons of icon painting, in which absolutely all artists then painted.

Actor: Donatello (Italy)

Works: sculptures - St. George, St. Mark, Mary Magdalene, John the Baptist, Judith and Holofernes.

Ideas: He was excellent at depicting emotions in the plasticity of sculpture and body movements. Christian ideas.

Actor: Leonardo da Vinci (Italy)

Works:“La Gioconda”, “Benois Madonna”, “Madonna and Child”, “Annunciation”, “Last Supper”

Ideas: created a new painting, not conventionally colored, but realistically depicting reality.

Actor: Botticelli Sandro (Italy)

Works:“Portrait of Dante”, “Madonna and Child”, “Mystical Crucifixion”, “Venus and Mars”, “Lamentation of Christ”

Ideas: depicted the beauty of the human face and body, the joy of life. He often turned to ancient subjects as the “golden age” of European culture.

Actor: Santi Rafael (Italy)

Works:“Sistine Madonna”, “Holy Family”, “Madonna Alba”, “Transfiguration”.

Ideas: an image of the joy of life, the charm of nature, the beauty and perfection of the human body, the beauty of health, as opposed to the asceticism and painful ideal of the Middle Ages.

Actor: Michelangelo Buonarotti (Italy)

Works: Sistine Chapel (painting), sculptures “David”, “Pieta”, “Bacchus”

Ideas: a breakthrough in the depiction of the human body, its plasticity, complexity of movements, volumes.

Actor: Durer Albrecht (Germany)

Works: self-portrait, Dresden Altarpiece, “Seven Sorrows”, “Girl with Flowing Hair”, “Adoration of the Magi”, “Hare”, “Saint Jerome in the Desert”

Ideas: one of the “fathers” of the self-portrait genre. Master of complex angles. Ideas of Christianity. Another Renaissance master who overcame the “flat” style of icon painting.

Field of culture: literature

Actor: William Shakespeare (England)

Works:"Hamlet", "Romeo and Juliet", "King Lear", "Othello", "The Taming of the Shrew"

Ideas: The idea of ​​justice of fate and retribution for actions. The idea of ​​the supreme value of love and human feelings in comparison with the norms and rules of society. The fight against society's prejudices. Gave birth to modern literary English.

Actor: Rabelais Francois (France)

Works:"Gargantua and Pantagruel"

Ideas: satire, anti-church ideas, propaganda of science and education, harmonious physical and mental development of the individual.

Actor: Dante Alighieri (Italy)

Works:"The Divine Comedy"

Ideas: humanism, boundless faith in the power of creativity that transforms the world. He preached universal love, peace and harmony.

Actor: Francesco Petrarca (Italy)

Works: sonnets

Ideas: sings of sublime love (Donna Laura was his personal lover), attacks the clergy, criticizes debauchery and an idle life. Defends the value of creativity for humans. The first humanist in Europe.

Field of culture: philosophy

Actor: Thomas More (England)

Works:"Utopia", novel

Ideas: defended Catholicism, humanism, argued with atheists, opposed the death penalty, against private property, against the power of the rich and for the equality of women.

Actor: Nicollo Machiavelli (Italy)

Works: treatise "Sovereign"

Ideas: studying the political structure of society, defended the ideas of a republic, the idea of ​​a strong leader at the head of the state, the idea of ​​universal military service for adult men in society.

Actor: Michel Montaigne (France)

Works: essay "Experiences"

Ideas: preached tolerance and spoke out for the all-round development of the individual. Conservative. Skeptic. He spoke out against any ideals, since they fetter human nature and his desire for happiness. He created a humane theory of raising children.