Italy is the birthplace of the European Renaissance. /kloc-From Florence, Rome and Turin in Italy, a new ideological and cultural trend with the slogan of reviving ancient Greek and Roman culture and art and humanism as the main theme emerged in the 4th century, which opened the European Renaissance. Then it spread all over Italy and Europe.
The field of painting is one of the most outstanding performances of the Italian Renaissance. During this period, two famous painting schools, the Florentine School and the Venetian School, emerged, with many painting masters and talented painters represented by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, giorgione, Titian and Tintonetto. , created a model of classical oil painting, became a model for European countries to learn painting at that time, laid a solid foundation for the later development of western oil painting and had a far-reaching impact. It can be said that Italy, as the leading figure of European painting in this period, is indisputable.
However, with the end of the Renaissance, after17th century, Italian painting circles are still obsessed with their previous achievements and are used to imitating the painting styles and techniques of their predecessors. "Stylistism" prevails, with little innovation, and there is a state of depression and "aging". During this period, during Louis XIV's visit to Charles Louis Napolé on Bonaparte, France held many international large-scale art exhibitions called "Paris World Art Fair", which attracted a large number of painters from European countries and even all over the world to France, greatly promoting the development of painting art.
From rococo oil painting to neoclassical oil painting, academic oil painting, critical realism oil painting, romantic oil painting and later impressionist oil painting, abstract oil painting and so on. The center of western painting gradually shifted from Italy to France. David, Angel, Courbet, Delacroix, Monet, Renoir, bouguereau, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, Picasso, Matisse and other western painting giants all came from or were in France.