BEGIN "FROM GOTHIC TO RENAISSANCE" old book and New Book "LATE MEDIEVAL ITALY"
Bring the new powerpoint to class
1. Prepare to compare in class Giotto and Cimabue's Madonna Enthroned.
2. Who is Giotto?
3. What was the Arena Chapel? http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/giotto-arena-chapel-part-1.html
4. Why are these changes in painting taking place? What do you think are the significant historical, religious cultural changes at this time?
5. What is a Mendicant Order?
MASACCIO AND DONATELLO
Look at Donatello's Saint Mark, Habbakuk and David (make sure it's Donatello's)
1. Where were each of these statures placed and why and who were the patrons?
2. What innovations does Donatello's work represent?
3. What innovations does Masacio represent?
4. What is a tromp l'oeil and how does it work in the Holy Trinity? What is a momento mori and how does that work in the Holy Trinity? Why do historians think that Brunelleschi may have assisted in the Holy Trinity?
https://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/unit11/unit11.html#euclid
ALBERTI and BARTOLOMEO
Questions
LINKS
INFO on BOTTICELLI AND SAVONAROLA
HW 1/13 and 1/14
Take close notes on Michelangelo's works-the Sistine Chapel Ceiling. Moses and David
FOR 1/14
1. Summarize the OP-Ed you were given today in class-"When Art Is Dangerous (or not)" What do you feel troubles the writer most? What are some of his thoughts about the political cartoonists in Paris that were killed?
2. Read the articles linked under CENSORSHIP in the "Art In The News" section of this website and prepare your own opinion on the political cartoons, satire and censorship. Write your opinion (to be handed in and possibly presented in class) in the context of one of the authors you have read. Be sure to quote from at least one of the op-eds that you read.
CLASS WORK 11/15
RAPHAEL QUESTIONS
HW for 11/16 Bring Titian, Raphael, Mannerism powerpoint to class
1. You need to know the other works of Michelangelo but several were almost at the Baroque (counter-reformation) but we will discuss the Last Judgement so take notes
2. Read Venice NB 624-28 OB 638-45
3. Pick One Bellini, Giorgione or Titian and describe the differences in Venetian Painting from that of Florence and Rome
H/W for 1/20
Read Mannerism
1. What does it mean for a work to make the artifice apparent? Have at least one example of a Mannerist Technique in a painting.
2. How is this Mannerist idea of artifice different from earlier work from the Renaissance period.
HW FOR 1/26 NORTHERN RENAISSANCE
Chapter 20 in BOTH BOOKS
Bring POWERPOINT TO CLASS
1. List some interesting structural devices demonstrated in the Duc de Berry, THE VERY SUMPTUOUS HOURS
2. Why does the book describe the illuminated manuscript as setting up a new relationship between viewer and image?
3. List and explain symbols in Jan van Eyck's Ghent altarpiece? Pick one symbol, figure, element or scene and use it to summarize the differences between Italian Renaissance and that of Flanders (Northern European Renaissance)
4. What do you think of Roger van der Weyden's work? Address either composition, the figures or mood (or something else) of either Deposition or Last Judgement.
WATCH IN CLASS on MONDAY 1/26
If there is no class watch on your own
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/northern-renaissance1/burgundy-netherlands/v/ghent-altarpiece-closed
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/northern-renaissance1/burgundy-netherlands/v/ghent-altar-open
HW for THURSDAY 1/29
List the ways that the Merode Altarpiece and the Arnolfini Wedding Portrait combine the secular and the sacred.
Be prepared to describe the symbols in the Portinari altarpiece
HW for Wednesday 2/4
REVIEW FRIDAY TEST MONDAY!
We will complete the Durer pieces and review your Quiz
GRUNEWALD - How does the last judgement theme reveal itself in the ISENHEIM ALTARPIECE 1510. Why is St. Anthony so prominent in this work?
HOLBEIN- How do realism and symbolism work together in The French Ambassadors 1533. What is an anamorphic image and what is your interpretation of it presence in the painting?
HW for 2/5
1. Think about and write down three ways that landscape functions in a painting. Often it is more than a "pretty setting", in what ways, in the Northern Renaissance does landscape work in pictures
2. Write down two contrasts and 2 comparisons between Fan Kuan Travelers Among Mountains and Streams and Altdorfer's Battle of Issus and between Fan Kuan's painting and Durer's Great Turf of Earth. (The painting isn't in the new book so use this link) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Piece_of_Turf
3. Look at the Landscapes and Genre Scenes of Breugel and Pieter Aertsen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyJkYbT88qc Good video on Breugel
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/theodoric-of-york/n8661 The Steve Martin Clip Medieval Barber
Bring the new powerpoint to class
1. Prepare to compare in class Giotto and Cimabue's Madonna Enthroned.
2. Who is Giotto?
3. What was the Arena Chapel? http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/giotto-arena-chapel-part-1.html
4. Why are these changes in painting taking place? What do you think are the significant historical, religious cultural changes at this time?
5. What is a Mendicant Order?
MASACCIO AND DONATELLO
Look at Donatello's Saint Mark, Habbakuk and David (make sure it's Donatello's)
1. Where were each of these statures placed and why and who were the patrons?
2. What innovations does Donatello's work represent?
3. What innovations does Masacio represent?
4. What is a tromp l'oeil and how does it work in the Holy Trinity? What is a momento mori and how does that work in the Holy Trinity? Why do historians think that Brunelleschi may have assisted in the Holy Trinity?
https://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/unit11/unit11.html#euclid
ALBERTI and BARTOLOMEO
Questions
LINKS
INFO on BOTTICELLI AND SAVONAROLA
HW 1/13 and 1/14
Take close notes on Michelangelo's works-the Sistine Chapel Ceiling. Moses and David
FOR 1/14
1. Summarize the OP-Ed you were given today in class-"When Art Is Dangerous (or not)" What do you feel troubles the writer most? What are some of his thoughts about the political cartoonists in Paris that were killed?
2. Read the articles linked under CENSORSHIP in the "Art In The News" section of this website and prepare your own opinion on the political cartoons, satire and censorship. Write your opinion (to be handed in and possibly presented in class) in the context of one of the authors you have read. Be sure to quote from at least one of the op-eds that you read.
CLASS WORK 11/15
RAPHAEL QUESTIONS
HW for 11/16 Bring Titian, Raphael, Mannerism powerpoint to class
1. You need to know the other works of Michelangelo but several were almost at the Baroque (counter-reformation) but we will discuss the Last Judgement so take notes
2. Read Venice NB 624-28 OB 638-45
3. Pick One Bellini, Giorgione or Titian and describe the differences in Venetian Painting from that of Florence and Rome
H/W for 1/20
Read Mannerism
1. What does it mean for a work to make the artifice apparent? Have at least one example of a Mannerist Technique in a painting.
2. How is this Mannerist idea of artifice different from earlier work from the Renaissance period.
HW FOR 1/26 NORTHERN RENAISSANCE
Chapter 20 in BOTH BOOKS
Bring POWERPOINT TO CLASS
1. List some interesting structural devices demonstrated in the Duc de Berry, THE VERY SUMPTUOUS HOURS
2. Why does the book describe the illuminated manuscript as setting up a new relationship between viewer and image?
3. List and explain symbols in Jan van Eyck's Ghent altarpiece? Pick one symbol, figure, element or scene and use it to summarize the differences between Italian Renaissance and that of Flanders (Northern European Renaissance)
4. What do you think of Roger van der Weyden's work? Address either composition, the figures or mood (or something else) of either Deposition or Last Judgement.
WATCH IN CLASS on MONDAY 1/26
If there is no class watch on your own
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/northern-renaissance1/burgundy-netherlands/v/ghent-altarpiece-closed
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/northern-renaissance1/burgundy-netherlands/v/ghent-altar-open
HW for THURSDAY 1/29
List the ways that the Merode Altarpiece and the Arnolfini Wedding Portrait combine the secular and the sacred.
Be prepared to describe the symbols in the Portinari altarpiece
HW for Wednesday 2/4
REVIEW FRIDAY TEST MONDAY!
We will complete the Durer pieces and review your Quiz
GRUNEWALD - How does the last judgement theme reveal itself in the ISENHEIM ALTARPIECE 1510. Why is St. Anthony so prominent in this work?
HOLBEIN- How do realism and symbolism work together in The French Ambassadors 1533. What is an anamorphic image and what is your interpretation of it presence in the painting?
HW for 2/5
1. Think about and write down three ways that landscape functions in a painting. Often it is more than a "pretty setting", in what ways, in the Northern Renaissance does landscape work in pictures
2. Write down two contrasts and 2 comparisons between Fan Kuan Travelers Among Mountains and Streams and Altdorfer's Battle of Issus and between Fan Kuan's painting and Durer's Great Turf of Earth. (The painting isn't in the new book so use this link) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Piece_of_Turf
3. Look at the Landscapes and Genre Scenes of Breugel and Pieter Aertsen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyJkYbT88qc Good video on Breugel
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/theodoric-of-york/n8661 The Steve Martin Clip Medieval Barber