NIKE

• You may begin working on your warmup reading from yesterday. This will be turned in next week.

• Please pick up your folder from the front of the room.

CNN Student News

• Can media coverage of a partial government shutdown influence viewers' opinions of the federal government? If so, how? If not, why not?

Middle Ages vs. Renaissance

• Take out a blank sheet of paper and create a T-Chart like the one below

• Write down differences between the Middle Ages and Renaissance

MIDDLE AGES RENAISSANCE

How to Analyze Art…• Determine subject matter

– i.e. What type of person is this painting portraying? Athlete? Religious figure?

• Use proper adjectives…– Detailed or not?– Realistic or not?

• Improper adjectives that you should stay away from…– Good– Bad– Ugly– Whether you like the painting or not

Middle Ages Art

“Madonna and Child”

-From The Book of Kells

“Mona Lisa (La Giaconda)”- Leonardo da

Vinci

Mona Lisa or Leonardo??

Leonardo’s Sketches

“Many Sided Genius”

-Artist -Architect

-Sculptor -Engineer

-Scientist -Inventor

An example of the An example of the humanist desire to humanist desire to unlock the secrets unlock the secrets

of nature.of nature.

Leonardo the ScientistAnatomy from his Sketchbook

“David”-Michelangelo

Michelangelo’s DETAIL!

“School of Athens”-Raphael

http://www.newbanner.com/AboutPic/athena/raphael/nbi_ath4.html

“Birth of Venus”-Sandro Botticelli

“Game of Chess”-Sofonisba Anguissola

1. Realism, Detail, and Expression

“Expulsion from the Garden” by Masaccio

2. Emphasis on Individualism

“The Duke and Dutchess of Urbino” –Piero della Francesca

3. Focus on Classical Greece and Rome

HUMANISM SECULARISM

INDIVIDUALISM GRECO-ROMAN

INFLUENCE

4. Perspective

Perspective!Perspective!Perspective!Perspective!

Perspective!Perspective!Perspective!Perspective!

Perspective!Perspective!Perspective!Perspective!

Perspective!Perspective!

3D!

Which is most similar to the modern painting?

MODERN ART

RENAISSANCE ART MIDDLE AGES ART

And Why???

• Now with your knowledge of characteristics of Renaissance Art, fill in any other important differences between the Renaissance and the Middle Ages on your T-Chart