Transcript Sept 2 & 3 - Oak Park Unified School District

September 2 & 3, 2015
Please take out your 3-Ring Binder &
Something with which to write
Quote of the Day
“I want to be a
Renaissance woman. I
want to paint, and I
want to write, and I
want to act, and I
want to just do
everything.”
-Emma Watson
Homework
Unit 1/Section 2-Renaissance & Reformation
• Read p. 342-345
• p. 345 #4,5
• Book next class? No
Why Do We Review the Quiz?
• Learn from your mistakes
• Improve for the next quiz
• Catch any mistakes made by Coach Kenney
• “The only real failure in life is the failure to learn
from your mistakes”
The Renaissance (~1300-1600)
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Renaissance Important Figures
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Lorenzo Medici
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael
Michelangelo
Brunelleschi
“Peasant” Bruegal
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Johann Gutenberg
Machiavelli
William Shakespeare
Sir Thomas More
Miguel de Cervantes
The Renaissance
• “Rebirth”
• Time of creativity and
change
• Begins in Italy
• Revive the culture of
ancient Rome
The Renaissance in Italy
• Led by a wealthy and powerful merchant class
– Medici family (bankers)
– Stressed education and individual achievement
– Spent lavishly to support the arts (patron)
• Florence = heart of the Renaissance
– Poets, artists, architects, scholars and scientists
The Renaissance
• New Worldview
– Renewed interest in ancient Greece and Rome
– Caused by the disorder and disunity of the
medieval world
– Concentrated on life and achievement rather than
the afterlife
• A Spirit of Adventure
– Christopher Columbus
– Nicolaus Copernicus
• Significant change from
Medieval art which was:
– Symbolic (primarily religious)
– Flat (no perspective, size
based on importance)
Technical Breakthroughs
• Oil paints on stretched canvas
• Perspective: demonstrate depth
• Linear
perspective –
shows three
dimensions
through lines
converging at a
vanishing point
• Atmospheric
Perspective: shift
of colors toward
blue and sky
HUMANISM
• ROOTS: Rediscovery of Greek and Roman ideas
• FOCUS: worth of the individual human being
• Humanists developed great confidence in human
powers:
– Man was God’s greatest creation and achievement
– Man too could create greatness
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Leonardo da Vinci
• Mona Lisa
• The Last Supper
• Vitruvian Man
Sistine Chapel ceiling
Michelangelo
• David
• Sistine Chapel ceiling
School of Athens
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Raphael
• School of Athens
• Madonna (mother of Jesus) and baby Jesus
Brunelleschi-Dome on unfinished cathedral
“Peasant” Bruegal
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Let’s Play a Game
“Name That Renaissance-er”
•3 Questions (Yes or No response)
•Try to guess the famous Renaissance person
•If you guess right, you get a “trick shot” attempt
Renaissance Important Figures
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Lorenzo Medici
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael
Michelangelo
Brunelleschi
“Peasant” Bruegal
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Johann Gutenberg
Machiavelli
William Shakespeare
Sir Thomas More
Miguel de Cervantes
Homework
Unit 1/Section 2-Renaissance & Reformation
• Read p. 342-345
• p. 345 #4,5
• Book next class? No