SISTINE CHAPEL & RENAISSANCE ART

 

Go to http://www.drjoshuadavidstone.com/images/tsc.jpg Look at the size of the room in comparison to the size of the people. After you get a feel for the whole room, then go to

 

http://sun.science.wayne.edu/~mcogan/Humanities/Sistine/Ceiling/index.html  Look at the ceiling overall

  Look at the difference since the ceiling has been cleaned by clicking on 'click here'.   Then go to 'click on large scale reproductions of panels'  and name some of the topics of the panels

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.  Now click on  'History Panels: Stories of Creation' and look at 'creation of Adam'.  This is one of the most famous.  Draw a rough sketch of how this looks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then go to 'select other regions of the ceiling'  and look at other pictures.  Describe 4 of them here.

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Go to http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/tours/sistina/ .   Click on 'the chapel' and answer

1. Who is the chapel named for?

 

Scroll down

2. Who got Michelangelo to paint the ceiling?
3. Between what dates did he paint it?

Click on the picture below 'the ceiling frescoes', then click on 'Michelangelo' on the left.  Read his biography and answer these questions.

1. When was he born?
2. Where did he grow up?
3. Look at the 2 sculptures he did at age 16, Madonna of _____________ & Battle of _________________.
4.  Click on first Pieta & then David. Tell one fact about each..  These are his most famous sculptures.

DAVID

 

PIETA

 

Click back until you find the original page with the four pictures across the bottom.  Click on
The Last Judgement.  Scroll down the left side  until you find a description of the two places that Michelangelo put his own face in the picture.  What are they?

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Extra Credit: If you can actually find the specific frames in close up that include his face & point them out to me.

 

Look at the pendentives. What reference do you find there that might be special to me? 

 

 

 

 

 

 Go to http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/tl/  Find the names of 2 more painters in each of the  areas mentioned (Italian, Early & Later Renaissance)  List one famous work of each.  Tell what the topic of each one you list is (religious, landscape, portrait, etc)

 

 

 

 

AREA	NAME	WORK	TOPIC	YOUR OPINION
ITALIAN REN
EARLY REN
HIGH REN
NORTHERN REN