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Art Homework
John Jay College/Intro. to Art/Spring 2021
Renaissance Art and Culture Homework Assignment
.
Answer Questions by Going to the Links
1
.
Go to the following link,
https://smarthistory.org/linear-perspective-brunelleschis-experiment/
and answer the question by watching the video the text:
What did Brunelleschi
’
s use of mirror
with a hole in it allow him to do
?
Answer
-
The hole in the mirror allows him to see if the lines are well coordinated because he
can see the reflection of the painting
.
2
.
Go to the following link,
https://smarthistory.org/the-study-of-anatomy/
and answer the
question by reading the text:
What were the different views of the human body between the
Middle Ages and the Renaissance
?
Answer
-
In the Middle Ages, there was very little interest in the human body. But in the
Renaissance the human anatomy was more preferred
.
3
.
Go to the following link,
https://smarthistory.org/how-to-recognize-italian-renaissance-art/
and answer the question by watching the video: What are the characteristics of Renaissance art
?
Answer
-
Renaissance art followed the ideal of anatomy, realism, and linear perspective
.
4
.
Go to the following link,
https://smarthistory.org/how-one-point-linear-perspective-works/
and answer the watching the video: What are the three elements of linear perspective
?
Answer
-
The three elements of linear perspective are parallel lines, the horizon line, and a
vanishing point
.
5
.
Go to the following link,
https://smarthistory.org/early-applications-of-linear-perspective
/
and answer the question by reading the text: Where did Massacio advance linear perspective in
his fresco titled,
The Holy Trinity
?
Answer
-
Masaccio
advanced linear perspective in
Santa Maria Novella, Florence
.
6
.
Go to the following link,
https://smarthistory.org/andrea-mantegna-dead-christ
/
and answer the question by watching the video: How does Mantegna humanize Christ that
differentiates his version from his medieval predecessors
?
Answer
- Mantegna humanizes Christ by making it as though you can sense pain and suffering
on Christ’s face through his forehead and eyebrows on the image. This differentiates from his
medieval predecessors because in their artworks they portray Christ as someone that doesn’t feel
pain and suffering
.
7
.
Go to the following link,
https://smarthistory.org/leonardo-virgin-of-the-rocks/
and answer the
question by watching the video: What does the water signify in the painting
?
Answer
-
The water in the painting
signifies
2 things. It signifies both Mary’s purity and a
foreshadowing of the baptism of Christ by John many years later
.
8
.
Go to the following link,
https://smarthistory.org/leonardo-last-supper/
and answer the
question by watching the video: Why is Thomas
’
finger pointing upward
?
Answer
- Thomas’ finger is pointing upward to question if the betrayal of one of the apostles
is
something that is ordained by god
.
9
.
Go to the following link,
https://smarthistory.org/michelangelo-pieta/
and answer the question
by watching the video: What might Mary
’
s left hand signify
?
Answer
-
Mary's left hand signifies her confusion while she is still trying to comprehend her
child’s death
.
10
.
Go to the following link,
https://smarthistory.org/michelangelo-david/
and answer the
question by watching the video: How did Michelangelo
’s
David
represent Florence
?
Answer
- Michelangelo’s David represented Florence as a symbol of their own struggle against
the Medici showing that good overcomes evil
.
11
.
Go to the following link,
https://smarthistory.org/michelangelo-ceiling-of-the-sistine-chapel/
and answer the question by watching the video: How is Christ present in the Sistine Chapel
considering it concerns the Old Testament
?
Answer
- Christ is present in other ways such as the disobedience of Adam and Eve because it
leads to making the coming of Christ necessary and there is also artwork of prophets and Sibyls
who predicted the coming of a savior for mankind
.
12
.
Go to the following link,
https://smarthistory.org/raphael-school-of-athens/
and answer the
question by watching the video: Which philosopher in
The School of Athens
is supposed to
represent Michelangelo and how does Raphael achieve this
?
Answer
- The philosopher that represents Michelangelo is Heraclitus and this is known because
the image resembles distinct features that Michelangelo as well as his personality of being lonely
and isolated. Raphael had achieved this by adding in the figure last. He finished the frescoe,
adding some wet plaster, and then added in the figure
.
13
.
Go to the following link,
https://smarthistory.org/raphael-portrait-of-pope-julius-ii
/
and answer the question by watching the video: How does Raphael bring out the more human
elements of Pope Julius II
?
Answer
- Raphael brings out the more human elements of Pope Julius by using various textures
throughout the painting such as the beard and skin
.
14
.
Go to the following link,
https://smarthistory.org/leonardo-and-his-drawings/
and answer the
question by reading the text: What Leonardo write about in his textbooks about war machinery
?
Answer
-
Leonardo wrote that such new weapons were often as dangerous to their users as to the
enemy
.
15
.
Go to the following link,
https://smarthistory.org/americas-medici/
and answer the question
by reading the text: What did Leo X commission to have painted from the Americas in the
Vatican Palace
?
Answer
-
He commissioned the artist Giovanni di Udine to paint maize
.
16
.
Go to the following link,
https://smarthistory.org/raphael-school-of-athens/
and answer the
question by watching the video: Raphael has painted himself in
The School of Athens
who are the
two figures next to him and what was he trying to say about the artist during the Renaissance
?
Answer
-
The two figures next to Raphael
are Ptolemy and Zoroaster. He was trying to say that
artist during the Renaissance are not just craftsman but intellectuals as well on par with some of
the greatest thinkers in history
.
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17
.
Go to the following link,
https://smarthistory.org/bronzino-an-allegory-with-venus-and-
cupid/
and answer the question by watching the video: What might the screaming man in the
painting symbolize
?
Answer
-
The screaming man represents syphilis, the venereal disease
.
18
.
Go to the following link,
https://smarthistory.org/benvenuto-cellini-perseus-with-the-head-
of-medusa/
and answer the question by watching the video: What does Cellini
’
s sculpture do to
Michelangelo
’s
David
and Bandellini
’s
Hercules and Caucus
?
Answer
- Both
Michelangelo
’s
David
and Bandellini
’s
Hercules and Caucus
represent the
Republic and Cellini’s sculpture makes it look as if its turning David and Hercules to stone
symbolizing the defeat of the Republic and the Medici’s victory over their enemies once again
.