Ciao to all my fellow philosophy students.
It was only this time last week you were scared at the prospect of Plato and now you can discuss his ideas without panicking. Well done.
Feast your eyes upon Raphael's School of Athens and imagine yourself, toga and all, discussing ideals or what to have for tea tonight!
This week we are cracking on with Neo Platonism.
Our focus is Task Two, working on our selected images - one Raphael and Michelangelo - due in Tuesday 4th May (that's next week), following that,
Task Three Evaluative Conclusion - due Friday 7th May.
In class we'll be watching some related film clips, make sure you add them to you bibliography.
Start to grasp to why and how Neo Platonism really appealed to these High Renaissance dudes. Make sure you take also research the patrons and scholars behind the Art, for example Ficino, (you need this for Task One).
One man who really sums up the whole intellectual and dignified vibe was Baldassare Castiglione, (1478-1592). We'll be learning more about him, his book "The Courtier" and just what appealed to Raphael when he captured his portrait.
Use our class research and your homework time to get to know the rest of the works, for this Achievement Standard too.
Try the virtual tours of the Sistine Ceiling,
plus the 3D/Second Life version. The amazing Stanze della Signatura and who's who in it - along with the rest of the works in that room,
(remember, 4 walls= 4 fresco ), also a great pod cast which is worth a listen.
Add to that Pieta, an ideal of motherhood, and an excellent discussion on this work. And finally, the Chigi Palace "love shack", home to Galatea by Raphael. Enjoy.
Term Two Week One
Ciao class, welcome to Term Two.
Is it just me, or does time fly when you're having fun?
This week we start our CSI detective work on the High Renaissance.
The High Renaissance is time when everything artistic reaches the absolute pinnacle of perfection, which only lasts a short time, (about 40 years - and that's not long when you're as old as me).
Our main focus will be Michelangelo and Raphael, with a little bit of lovely Leonardo and his later works, thrown in for good measure.
Of course, to add to the excitement we start working on our next Internal Achievement Standard, Examine a Theory and it's role in Art, for a whopping 4 credits -so that should equate to about 40 hours of work - yikes. Luckily, we'll be spending quite a bit of time on the topic in class and the work required will follow smaller deadlines leading up to the big kahuna.
Anyway, on with the week: Idealisation and the Influence of Antiquity.
This topic mainly centres around Rome and the Renaissance obsession with all things classical.
Hard for us to imagine, but by 15c all that was left of the ancient relics of Rome, was rubble; fallen buildings had been dismantled, sites were leveled off and built over the top. Even today wonderful mosaics and murals created 2000 years ago are being discovered through drains and construction sites.
Obviously the Renaissance celebrities and scholars wanted a piece of the ancient action and got to work rebuilding this glorious city, bank rolled by, you guessed it, the Catholic Church and a few wannabie families.
First on the list of to do's was rebuilding St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City, home to the Pope. This was none other than Julius II "Warrior Pope"- not a man to be messed with and a lover of classical antiquity and art. It was his vision that turned the decaying city of Rome into a symbol of papal power and authority. He collected some rather lovely stuff along the way, including classical sculptures being unearthed in Rome.
There are three biggies you need to know, all of which he kept in the Vatican and were studied and copied by artists:
Roman copy of Greek original, from 4BC - Apollo Belvedere
Roman copy of Greek original, from 2 BC- Laocoon Group
and the Belvedere Torso from 1 BC
Other aspects we'll unearth in the next week include:
Plato and his theories, which were all the rage in the High Renaissance,
Cosimo de Medici and Marsilio Ficino who made Plato groovey,
and a movement known as Neo-Platonism .
Is it just me, or does time fly when you're having fun?
This week we start our CSI detective work on the High Renaissance.
The High Renaissance is time when everything artistic reaches the absolute pinnacle of perfection, which only lasts a short time, (about 40 years - and that's not long when you're as old as me).
Our main focus will be Michelangelo and Raphael, with a little bit of lovely Leonardo and his later works, thrown in for good measure.
Of course, to add to the excitement we start working on our next Internal Achievement Standard, Examine a Theory and it's role in Art, for a whopping 4 credits -so that should equate to about 40 hours of work - yikes. Luckily, we'll be spending quite a bit of time on the topic in class and the work required will follow smaller deadlines leading up to the big kahuna.
Anyway, on with the week: Idealisation and the Influence of Antiquity.
This topic mainly centres around Rome and the Renaissance obsession with all things classical.
Hard for us to imagine, but by 15c all that was left of the ancient relics of Rome, was rubble; fallen buildings had been dismantled, sites were leveled off and built over the top. Even today wonderful mosaics and murals created 2000 years ago are being discovered through drains and construction sites.
Obviously the Renaissance celebrities and scholars wanted a piece of the ancient action and got to work rebuilding this glorious city, bank rolled by, you guessed it, the Catholic Church and a few wannabie families.
First on the list of to do's was rebuilding St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City, home to the Pope. This was none other than Julius II "Warrior Pope"- not a man to be messed with and a lover of classical antiquity and art. It was his vision that turned the decaying city of Rome into a symbol of papal power and authority. He collected some rather lovely stuff along the way, including classical sculptures being unearthed in Rome.
There are three biggies you need to know, all of which he kept in the Vatican and were studied and copied by artists:
Roman copy of Greek original, from 4BC - Apollo Belvedere
Roman copy of Greek original, from 2 BC- Laocoon Group
and the Belvedere Torso from 1 BC
Other aspects we'll unearth in the next week include:
Plato and his theories, which were all the rage in the High Renaissance,
Cosimo de Medici and Marsilio Ficino who made Plato groovey,
and a movement known as Neo-Platonism .
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)