Thursday, December 7, 2017

Reflection Question to Answer when Foldable is completed

Do this reflection question on a separate sheet of paper and staple it to your foldable before your turn it in.
How does the painting you choose reflect Humanism and its emphasis on the individual? 
Use pages 352-355 in your textbook to help you answer this question. 

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Paintings and Sculpture of the Renaissance Foldable

First you need to make the foldable:
https://snapguide.com/guides/create-a-four-door-book-foldable/

The four doors on the front are labeled: Who, When, Where, and How

The flat front side is labeled with the name of the painting and at the bottom is your heading and sources list.

You need to pick a painting from the Renaissance, date range 1350-1550

WHO

Artists name: Examples below

Veronese
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Donatello
Michelangelo
Leonardo De Vinchi
Botticelli
Raphael

When

When was it made?
Where was it made?
Where is it displayed now?

How

What techniques does it use:

Is it a Fresco? (page 355 in textbook)
Do they use Realism?
Do they use perspective?
How do they use shadows and light?

Use this cheat sheet to help you to figure out the perspectives:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tuCt8FggyTBENztnVuv8d6c26eMZes01
What 

What is the painting about?
Is it a painting or a sculpture?
What strikes you about the piece as interesting or unusual?

Examples of Renaissance Art that you could use:
Mona Lisa

School of Athens

David

Birth of Venus






Monday, December 4, 2017

Workbook pages 233-236 Renaissance Lesson 2


If you missed the workbook pages, didnt grab them or misplaced them, here is a copy in the link below:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1IGbmNBgb2cXzs8keplsqKu97PD0R6b_o

Make sure you do everything including the questions at the end on page 236

We will be going over it as a class tomorrow!

Renaissance Social Classes


Friday and Today we observed the social class changes from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.
Using pages 350-351 in the textbook we input the people of Renaissance Italy into their perspective social classes. 

The List:
Peasants
Burghers
Rulers and Nobles
Urban Upper Class
Serfs
Unemployed
Urban Workers
Free People
Townspeople

Draw the Pyramid:
After filling the pyramid we compared them both. (the Middle Ages to the Renaissance) How did social classes change? Could people move from class to class?