04/21/2006
Renaissance Project
The primary purpose of this Renaissance Project is for you to get a "deeper understanding" of the ideas and literature; and the visual and architectural arts that "flowered" in the 1300's-1500's in the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance.
Secondly, the purpose of this project is to have you work in a group and to give you a number of ways to work at completing the task you undertake within your group.
We will work on the project in the lab one day a week and will work on the project at home, as well.
All students will do an oral presentation. Oral presentations will begin Wednesday, April 17, 2002.
Written work will be do April 17, 2002. Each day the paper is late, a 5 point penalty will be deducted from your grade.
The following are the individuals (and their work) that we
will be investigating and working on.
A.
Ideas
and Literature of the Renaissance
Desiderius Erasmus Lorenzo Valla
Francesco Petrarch Michel de Montaigne
Nicolo Machiavelli William Shakespeare
Leon Batista Alberti Miguel de Cervantes
Leonardo Bruni Thomas More
Pico della Mirandola Francois Rabelais
Baldassare Castiglione
B.
Visual
and Architectural Arts
of the
Renaissance
Italian Artists
Masaccio Bellini
Donatello Botticelli
Brunellesci Caravaggio
Leonardo da Vinci Ghiberti
Michelangelo Buonarroti Giotto
Titian Raphael
Tintoretto
C.
Northern
European Artists
Jan Van Eyck Matthias Grunewald
Albrecht Durer Hans Memling
Hans Holbein Lucas Cranach
Pieter
Brueghel
Rembrandt van Rijn
(a little later)
Hieronymous
Bosch Jan Vermeer
(somewhat later)
Project Choices:
(1) Research paper - complete a well documented research paper, 5 pages in length, 12 point font, double-space, with internal notations and a Works Cite Page, on 3 individuals from either category A., B., or C. (Emphasize the ideas and themes of those individuals in category A.)
(2) Modeling - the
creation of a model of famous Renaissance architectural forms.
examples: model of the Cathedral of Florence
(Duomo); a model of St. Peter's Basilica
(3) A PowerPoint presentation on 3 individuals from either category A., B., or C., in lieu of the research paper.
(4) A field trip by the student to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to sketch a Renaissance painting located at the Met Museum. Additionally, the student will write a descriptive account of the components of the painting and details of the painting; including color, texture, symmetry, medium; persons in the painting, objects in the painting, the general environment of the painting. The student will also research the paintings in books and on websites and will hand in an art criticism research paper that discusses what art historians have said about the painting through the centuries.
(5) A field trip by the student to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to investigate two Renaissance paintings. The student will observe the paintings and will write a descriptive essay on the observed paintings. The student will also research the paintings in books and on websites and will hand in an art criticism research paper that discusses what art historians have said about the paintings through the centuries.
(6) The creation of a website on the network in the 6N2 lab (Local Area Network) or on the World Wide Web dealing with 3 individuals either in category A., B., or C.
(Browse the websites below to decide on a topic of interest that you can investigate further and in more detail as we will begin a project on the Renaissance very shortly.)
Italian Renaissance Artists/Thinkquest site
Italian
Renaissance of the 15th Century
(ignore some broken links on the website)
History of Italian Renaissance Architecture
Italian Renaissance Art Project
Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
European Renaissance/Reformation
Renaissance
Pictures
(Electric Renaissance,
Prof. Skip E. Knox)
The Cathedral of Florence (the Duomo)
Dr. Vess's World Civilization Virtual Library