Program Module: Renaissance Art (7)

Learn realism and perspective through the work of Renaissance artists. Using masterpieces by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, and Raphael Sanzio to guide them, students learn the techniques of foreshortening, drawing frontal and profile figures, shading to create form, and arranging composition. Projects explore purely decorative design as well as the architectural concepts of balance, symmetry, and unity. Students create African clay animals based on a Yoruba ivory bracelet, design antique fonts in the fashion of the Irish Book of Kells, print landscape images based on Hokusai's The Great Wave, and explore the Islamic principles of design in Taj Mahal. The 12 lessons in this program module feature the masterpieces below.

Jan van Eyck Book of Kells Ambrogio Lorenzetti Paolo Uccello Sandro Botticelli Islamic Design Yoruba Carving Leonardo da Vinci Raphael Sanzio Michelangelo Buonarroti Katsushika Hokusai Wassily Kandinsky

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