Time for the finals

Today in class we went over the notes that we took yesterday. Then Mr.Schick passed out our quizzes and we went over the questions. These questions are going to be on the final exam next weekend.

Renaissance

Sculptors made figures more realistic. Perspective in painting, a technique that creates the appearance of three dimensions using a vanishing pint and horizon. Vernacular (native language) ex, Dante in Medieval Times writing. The Divine Comedy. Boccaccio wrote the Decameron, a series of realistic, sometimes off-color  (dirty)stories, cutting down public figures. Niccolo Machiavelli wrote The Prince. He focused on telling rulers how to expand their power even if it meant taking steps the Church viewed as evil. Don't worry about morals. Cynical view: most people are corrupt and selfish.

Renaissance/Pieta

Michelangelo would bring the blocks down the side of the mountains. Very dangerous. 1499, he had other problems. Like his father. Sometimes he would go months without taking his boots off. He was living like Jesus, which is what he told his father to do. He was 25 years old when he was finished. He signed his name i the side of his art to get credit because nobody knew him and didn't know he did it. He was asked by the Pope to paint the 16th chapel. Raphael , painter, School of Athens. Frescoes paintings done on wet plaster. Favorite subject was Madonna and child. Worked for Pope Julius II. Donatello is best known for his statue of David.

Renaissance

Mona Lisa has no eyebrows because it was the style back then. Nobody knows why she is smiling. She wasn't outside when she the painting took place.  Starts in Florence around 1450. Started their but then spread around. The rebirth starts after the Middle Ages. Renaissance means rebirth. 1300-1600 overlap with the middle ages. Started in Italy, important trade cities, cities wealthy, and heritage of classical Rome. Humanism, is an interest in secular(worldly) things rather than religious/spiritual art. It focused in human potential and achievements. Patrons, is wealthy clients who pay to support artists and their creations. Ex, the Medici family, a powerful and banking and trading family, supported artisans: paying for portraits, donating public art. The renaissance man was also called universal man,men and women. At the time were expected to be well rounded in many fields. Everyone should create art. Write poetry, sing,dance. Be a skilled writer, wrestler, swordsman. Leonardo de Vinci. True Renaissance Man. Painter of Mona Lisa and The last Supper. Sculptor. Inventor, Scientist. He sketched a helicopter in 1493. He wrote left handed and backwards. Michelangelo Bunarroti. Another true Renaissance Man. Painter, sculptor.

Renaissance

In this picture you can see the angles surrounding a lady and a baby sitting in the chair. This painting is of Madonna and Child Enthroned with Angles. It was painted in mid-16th century.
In the second picture, it is a sculpture of Hercules beating Centaur Nesso. It is made out of marble. 
In the third picture, it is of S.Maria del Fiore. It was the Original Plan for S.Maria del Fiore. 
In the last picture, it is a women writing with the Renaissance material.

Questions for the test

1. Define indulgent? Something you buy from a Church that gives you less years in Purgatory. 2. A person that says the opposite of what the Church teaches is called what? It is called Heretic. 3. What year did Luther reach Rome? 1510. 4. What was the list about that he nailed on the door? How many was on the paper? The list was about 95 things that Luther thought was wrong with the Church. 5. What did Luther use to spread the list? He used the printing press. What year did Martin Luther create the list? The year was 1517.

Heads up

Leo the 10 is the Pope. Little naked boys popped out the cake. The indulgent was a peace of paper. He sold the indulgences in Germany. Salvation was a gift from God, you get it through faith; not buying it from the Pope. 1517, Luther sat down and wrote down 95 things that was wrong with the Church/Pope. Then he nailed them to the Church in Wittenburg. Luther was telling the people that you can't pay your way to Heaven. Luther was about to become the first big author. Gutenberg invited the printed press in Germany. The printing of his paper went out around Germany like a wildfire. The Catholic had a name from people like Luther. The name was heretic. The meaning is a person that teaches the opposite of the Church. 1546. He never intended the lust to make things worst. Luther books was burned, and the next was Luther himself. The Pope demanded the Luther dismiss the list. The more the Church tried to silence Luther, the more courage he got. The Pope made a document that said the Luther would spend eternity in Hell. Luther found a new weapon he had in his side. He started to use the printing press because he wanted to spread the list.