UNIT 2

Let’s Read and Talk about Painting

Pre-reading task: If you can answer these questions without reading the text, then proceed to the development tasks. If not, please, refer to the following texts for information about Renaissance painting, and what artists paint or subject matter of a painting.

 

        Why is the period between 14-16 centuries called the Renaissance?

        Can you characterise the historic background before the Renaissance epoch?

        What spheres of life did it penetrate into?

        What do you happen to know about the Italian painting of this time? The essential motif? Its peculiarities?

        What names of the Renaissance painting are world-known?