Lesson 2
1. LESSON TOPIC :Food on Canvas – Late Renaissance / Baroque Painting
2. LECTURE DURATION : 50 min
3. LEARNING OBJECTIVES – BY THE END OF THIS LESSON STUDENTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO:
. Describe and analysethe painting “The Bean Eater” by Annibale Carracci (1585) and relate it to its historical period and social status (studied in lesson 1).
. Compare and infer connections between the painting and the traditional Portuguese tale of the stone soup
The Bean Eater, by Annibale Carracci (1585)
4. LEARNING OUTCOME:
To acquire knowledge about how to look at a painting; interpret the depiction of food on canvas relating it to a social status.
5. LESSON OUTLINE ANDSTUCTURE:
a) Describing and analysingthe painting “The Bean Eater” by Annibale Carracci (1585) by answering some questions about figures, action, type of food, colours, forms, light, relation to the historical period.
b)Reading the English version of the tale of the Stone Soup( and watching a video aboutit (
c) Discussing the connections between the painting and the traditional tale (Venn Diagram).
6. KEY TERMS: Late Renaissance/Baroque; food depiction; daily life scenes.
7. LECTURE CONTENT (brief):
The painting “The Bean Eater” depicts a daily life scene with a man eating a bowl of beans in a very realistic way; hard surface; a table cloth giving volume effect; hands of a peasant; part of the bread has already been eaten; clothes showing a low social class; fading colours; pyramid form; social status inferred by the clothes and the kind of food (no meat, just beans and bread);
After reading/watching the tale the connections with the painting are the low social status of the peasant and the monk; the use of beans on a daily diet throughout the times.
8. QUESTIONS TO DISCUSS DURING/AFTER THE LECTURE:Food depiction: what kind of connections between daily life and social status?
9. ASSESSMENT METHOD:
Main Group Product / Analysis of the painting by Annibale Carracci; oral discussion about the connection between the painting and the tale of the stone soup.Result and reporting / Collaboration, content knowledge, intercultural understanding, verbal communication, critical thinking, peer and self-evaluation.
10. RESOURCES:
Technology – Web sites(written above),Picture “The Bean Eater” by Annibale Carracci…
Community – researching material…
Materials – paper, pens, technological tools…