EARLY EUROPE & COLONIAL AMERICAS1ST HALF

200 – 1750 CE

Quick timeline reference from where we left

off:

Byzantine Style (330-1453): o Constantine recognized Christianity as the official religiono At the Fall of Rome – arrangements were made to divide the

Western half (ruled from Rome) and the Eastern half (ruled from Byzantium – later named Constantinople after Constantine)

o Western half fell to barbarian Dark Ageso Eastern art flourished with Christian art – creating a new set of

Christian images and icons (derived though from Greek and Egyptian Art techniques)

o Orthodox Christianity flourished during this timeo Byzantine Style PANEL PAINTINGS:

• Panel painting originally began as a small-scale devotional icon carried and owned by the many.

• Progressed to multi-paneled, hung above an altar called an ALTARPIECE.

ACTIVITY – SILENT POLL• TAKE A FEW STICKY NOTES AND A MARKER OR PEN• JOT DOWN A FEW ANSWERS TO THE FOLLOWING

QUESTIONS (PUT YOUR ANSWERS ON DIFFERENT STICKYS)

• PLACE YOUR ANSWER ON THE QUESTION SHEET.• THIS IS A SILENT POLL – NO DISCUSSION YET.

QUESTIONS:• WRITE DOWN ALL YOU KNOW ABOUT THE RENAISSANCE.

(EACH FACT ON A DIFFERENT STICKY)• WHAT DO YOU WANT TO LEARN ABOUT THE ITALIAN

RENAISSANCE (WRITE SOMETHING OTHER THAN “I DON’T CARE” OR “I DON’T KNOW”)

PAINTING MEDIUMSo Encaustic Style – using hot beeswax combined

with pigments to apply to surface.o Tempera – another form of painting using egg

yolk blended with water, pigments, & occasionally other materials such as glue.

• 14th century material of choice, velvety sheen – but results in premature cracking & flaking

o Fresco –pigments mixed with water then applied directly onto freshly laid lime-plaster surface.

o Oil –mixing natural oils such as linseed, walnut, or poppy to bind the pigment. Slow dry time allows artists to blend on the surface.

Lamentation, by Giotto di Bondone, 1303 CE, located in the Arena

(Scrovegni) Chapel, Padua, Italy, Fresco

• http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/global-site-search-page.html?searchterm=masters%20of%20illusion&searchpath=%2Fcontent%2Fngaweb%2Fglobal-site-search-page&category=Audio%2FVideo&pageNumber=1&lastFacet=category

LINEAR PERSPECTIVE

*Take notes on the video

Annunciation Triptych (Mérode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin,

1427-1432 CE, South Netherlandish, Tournai (present-day

Belgium), Oil on wood

• Triptych (3 panels) with window vantage point.• Exploits middleclass objects with religious undertones.

ACTIVITY: INDIVIDUAL OBSERVATION

(3 min.), SHARE WITHIN SMALL

GROUPS (3 min.), RESEARCH TO

CONFIRM (10 min.), DISCUSS WITH

CLASS (5 min. each Panel)

• # Off 1’s, 2’s, & 3’s• 1’s: Observe the Image on the Left Panel• 2’s: Observe the Image on the Middle Panel• 3’s: Observe the Image on the Right Panel

ACTIVITY: INDIVIDUAL OBSERVATION (3 min.), SHARE

WITHIN SMALL GROUPS (3 min.), RESEARCH TO CONFIRM

(10 min.), DISCUSS WITH CLASS (3 min. each Panel)

Left Panel Group Results:

Middle Panel Group Results:

Right Panel Group Results:

Renaissance = meaning “rebirth”1300-1700 CE

• Abundance of Talented Artists• Princely Courts

o All had a “Court artist”• Art Functioned as:

o Evidence of princely culture & sophisticationo Demonstration of wealtho Form of commemorationo Propaganda & public educationo visual pleasure

• Spread of Humanismo Encouraged individual improvement (unlike

medieval times)o Rewarded with fame and honoro Development of Printing press = Books

The Arnolfini Portrait, by Jan van Eyck

Look up the areas of Symbolism listed below for the purpose within this painting. Include other areas of symbolism you find through your research.

The Color Red: Statue of St. Margaret on bedpost:Single burning candle: Fruit on table & windowsill: Shoes removed: Dog: CONVEX MIRROR: Others?

David, by Donatello, (dated around) 1435-1440 CE,

bronze

• 1st recorded being in Medici palace in courtyard.

• Draws on classical tradition of heroic nudity (1st since ancient times).

• Adolescent David stands jauntily upon Goliath’s head

• Symbol for the Independent Florentine Republic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlTpu5yHXz8

Birth of Venus, by Sandro Botticelli, 1483-1485 CE, tempera on panel,

approx. 5' 8" x 9' 1". Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

**PAINTING KNOWN FOR IT’S GRACEFUL LINEARITY! **COMMISSIONED BY THE MEDICI FAMILY

Using your Google Chrome Books, look up and read the Poem by Angelo Poliziano, that inspired Sandro Botticellito create the Birth of Venus painting for the Medici Family.

*Discussion to Follow

ACTIVITY – SILENT POLL FOLLOW UP• TAKE A FEW STICKY NOTES AND A MARKER OR

PEN• JOT DOWN A FEW ANSWERS TO THE FOLLOWING

QUESTIONS (PUT YOUR ANSWERS ON DIFFERENT STICKYS)

• PLACE YOUR ANSWER ON THE QUESTION SHEET.• THIS IS A SILENT POLL – NO DISCUSSION YET.

QUESTIONS:• AFTER TODAY’S LESSON - WRITE DOWN ALL YOU

KNOW SO FAR ABOUT THE RENAISSANCE. (EACH FACT ON A DIFFERENT STICKY)