TEACHER NOTE RENAISSANCE ART Use in conjunction with Florentine art and architecture webpage of Learner.org Renaissance Webquest.
Feb 15, 2016
TEACHER NOTE
RENAISSANCE ART
Use in conjunction with Florentine art and architecture webpage of Learner.org
Renaissance Webquest.
Botticelli’s Birth of Venus (1486)
Botticelli’s Primavera (1482)
WHO IS VENUS? WHY IS SHE BEING PAINTED DURING THE RENAISSANCE?
Michalangelo’s David (1501-1504
Whose David? And why is he being painted during the Renaissance?
What are the people in the picture doing?
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, with close-ups
Of Creation Of Adam.
Who am I?Who do I look like?
All by Donatello (respectively, the Crucifix, the David, and the Annunciation).
Brunelleschi’s Dome @ Santa Maria del Fiore
Dome painting NOT by Brunelleschi. Completed later by Giorgio Vasari and Federico Zuccari.
Just for fun . . . Raphael’s School of Athens. Athens, hint, hint. Any guesses as to the identity of the guy in the middle is?