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.
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.
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