Leonardo
da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance
1.
Explain why you selected each of the TWO videos you choose from the selection
listed above.
I chose this video because da Vinci is always fascinating and I knew it
would be interesting to watch.
2.
For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.
Da Vinci was left handed and started drawing at a very young age; he was a
very precocious child; he was a model for statues made by his master; his
master quit painting once he saw what da Vinci was capable of; he was treated
very poorly by his contemporaries and people were very petty even back then;
his anatomy drawings were based on his own dissections.
3.
How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?
The video helped to illuminate how highly regarded good artists were during
that period of time.
4.
What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of
the readings and art concepts?
It was an interesting video based on a very interesting man,
and it helped to show exactly how important he was to so many different fields
beyond art.
Albrecht
Duerer: Image of a Master
1.
Explain why you selected each of the TWO videos you choose from the selection
listed above.
On our art discovery project from a few weeks ago, I had chosen a drawing
that Duerer made of a rhino (which he had never seen before) and I thought it
was a very interesting drawing from an anatomy standpoint.
2.
For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.
Duerer followed the Roman sculptors example and drew and painted people very
truthfully, especially in the context of their age, people were not idealized.
Duerer left Germany to go to Italy, which he loved and loved him, and this is
where he became famous. Like da Vinci, Duerer liked making treatises on things
that he was beginning to understand, specifically perspective. He was a very
religious man and he and Martin Luther were contemporaries, with Duerer’s religious
woodprints being very wonderful to people who agreed with Luther’s contempt for
Rome.
3.
How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?
The video helped to illuminate how highly regarded good artists were during
that period of time, showing how much better the German people treated him
after he returned from Italy. It also helped to illustrate the differences in
prints that could be achieved by carving different materials.
4.
What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of
the readings and art concepts?
The video was very dry, but it was useful in its
explanations of woodcuttings and other print making materials, as well as
Duerer’s closeness with Martin Luther.
