1) What is a metaphor?
2) Explain what this image might be a visual metaphor for?
Extension:
What does it show you about life during the
Renaissance?

-People look better than real life.
-Bodies appear active and lifelike, like they could “come alive.”
-Faces are calm and do not show emotion.

-Images are very flat,
2D without much depth.
-Usually religious
(Mary and Jesus)
-Important figures are larger than others
-Bright colors
-Solid color backgrounds

-Uses perspective
-Objects in “back” smaller than those in “front”
-Lifelike, 3D figures
-Lines meet in a single point
-Full, detailed backgrounds.
-Soft, shadowy colors
-Often non-religious

Look at the pieces of art on the following slides and try to determine during which period they were made.

1. Madonna and Child

2. Bathing Venus

3. Primavera

4. Madonna and Child

5. Grave Stele of Hegeso

6. Pieta

How did renaissance artists use math in their art?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOksHhQ8TLM
Rebirth in perspective clip from discovery edu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWvtGliRJaw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNQYqCWHwDc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFmek_sesfo http://elementaryartfun.blogspot.com/2012/02/dra wing-steps-for-one-point-perspective.html

1) Create an visual metaphor or city scape to represent the ideals of Renaissance art.
2) Write a short essay (two to three paragraphs) that:
1) Defines humanism
2) Contrasts renaissance with medieval art.
3) Analyze how the tenets of renaissance art changed the way people thought about classical art, individual autonomy, role of the church.

Blog city scape directions http://elementaryartfun.blogspot.com/2012/02/d rawing-steps-for-one-point-perspective.html
City scape http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZYBWA-ifEs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV4CUVAXy38 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZYBWA-ifEs