Today in class we finished up the powerpoint. Then, we locked over our last test that we had taken on martin Luther. Then, we just reviewed for our FINAL EXAM. Here are my notes on the powerpoint:
- Niccolo Machiavelli
○ Wrote the Prince
○ Cynical view: most people are corrupt and selfish
○ He focused on telling rulers how to expand their power even if it meant taking steps the Church viewed as evil
- Shakespeare
Friday, June 4, 2010
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Today in Class....
Today un class we took notes on the powerpoint. Here are my notes:
- Donatello
○ Sculpture of David
- Perspective( in painting)- a technique that creates the appearance of three dimensions using a vanishing point and horizon
- Vernacular (native language) ex. Dante in Medieval Times writing
- Boccaccio- wrote the Decameron, a series of realistic, sometimes off-color stories, cutting down public figures
- Donatello
○ Sculpture of David
- Perspective( in painting)- a technique that creates the appearance of three dimensions using a vanishing point and horizon
- Vernacular (native language) ex. Dante in Medieval Times writing
- Boccaccio- wrote the Decameron, a series of realistic, sometimes off-color stories, cutting down public figures
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Today In Class...
Today in class we talked about and watched a movie about Michelangelo. Here are my notes about him:
- Michelangelo
○ His most famous sculpture is the Pieta
○ Made of marble
○ They would get it down by using wooden sleds and roll them down the hill
○ The people are trying to make a copy of the Pieta
○ He lived like a poor man
○ He received 45,000 dollars for doing the statue
○ It is in the heart of the Roman Catholic Church- St. Peter's Basilica
○ Not everyone signed their work back then, but Michelangelo signed his so people would know you sculpted it
He wasalso asked to paint the Sisten Chapel
- Michelangelo
○ His most famous sculpture is the Pieta
○ Made of marble
○ They would get it down by using wooden sleds and roll them down the hill
○ The people are trying to make a copy of the Pieta
○ He lived like a poor man
○ He received 45,000 dollars for doing the statue
○ It is in the heart of the Roman Catholic Church- St. Peter's Basilica
○ Not everyone signed their work back then, but Michelangelo signed his so people would know you sculpted it
He wasalso asked to paint the Sisten Chapel
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Today In Class...
Today in class, we learned about the Renaissance. Here are my notes:
- Florence, Rome- 1450
- Humanist philosophy- with its focus on the human rather than the divine, and on the virtues of physical and mental self-perfection, encouraged this approach to art
- Religious topics were covered in paintings and sculptures
- They introduced mathematical perspective to their works
- Middle class of merchants and bankers, the arts found new sources of support
- It brought in a periods of explosive growth of knowledge in literature, painting, architecture, science, and mathematics
- Renaissance means "rebirth"
- Started in Italy for three main reasons
○ There were several important trade cities
○ Cities gas bankers and merchant class
○ Artists were inspired by heritage of classical Rome
- Humanism- an interest in secular (worldly) things rather than religious/ spiritual art
- Humanists focused on human potential and achievements (individuality)
- Spirit of the Renaissance was concerned with the here and now, not the hereafter
- Patrons- wealthy clients who pay to support artists and their creations
○ Example: the Medici family, a powerful banking and trading family, supported artists: paying for portraits, donating public art
- Leonardo Divinci
○ Born in 1452 in Vinci, Italy
○ He was a bastard child
○ He wasn’t able to learn literature or anything
○ "The First Modern Mind"
○ He wrote left handed and backwards
○ He was obsessed with everything
○ He left behind 6,000 pages of notes about making something for humans to fly
- Michelangelo
- Florence, Rome- 1450
- Humanist philosophy- with its focus on the human rather than the divine, and on the virtues of physical and mental self-perfection, encouraged this approach to art
- Religious topics were covered in paintings and sculptures
- They introduced mathematical perspective to their works
- Middle class of merchants and bankers, the arts found new sources of support
- It brought in a periods of explosive growth of knowledge in literature, painting, architecture, science, and mathematics
- Renaissance means "rebirth"
- Started in Italy for three main reasons
○ There were several important trade cities
○ Cities gas bankers and merchant class
○ Artists were inspired by heritage of classical Rome
- Humanism- an interest in secular (worldly) things rather than religious/ spiritual art
- Humanists focused on human potential and achievements (individuality)
- Spirit of the Renaissance was concerned with the here and now, not the hereafter
- Patrons- wealthy clients who pay to support artists and their creations
○ Example: the Medici family, a powerful banking and trading family, supported artists: paying for portraits, donating public art
- Leonardo Divinci
○ Born in 1452 in Vinci, Italy
○ He was a bastard child
○ He wasn’t able to learn literature or anything
○ "The First Modern Mind"
○ He wrote left handed and backwards
○ He was obsessed with everything
○ He left behind 6,000 pages of notes about making something for humans to fly
- Michelangelo
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