Student-Teacher Name: Lau Kit Chi

Lesson Plan

Date: 16 Nov 2000 (Day 2 11:40-12:20 p.m.)

Class: F. 2A

Topic: The Art of the Renaissance

Aim:

1) Understand the new Renaissance painting and sculpture's style.

2) Admire different masterpieces of different painters and sculptors such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.

Teacher-aid materials:

1) Transparencies

2) Worksheet

Time Spent / Content / Teacher & Student activities / Teaching-aid materials
1 min / 1) Revise the last lesson content:
Humanism influenced the art in Renaissance times. / Question & Answer:
~ Revise the main idea of the Medieval art.
~ Show how was the Renaissance art influenced by Humanism? / Textbook p.10
2 mins / 2) Introduce one of the best known Renaissance artists—Leonardo da Vinci / a)
Use "The Mona Lisa" to arouse the students' interest.
Question & Answer:
~Have you ever seen this painting before?
~Do you know who painted this famous painting?
b)
Briefly introduce the background of Leonardo da Vinci
~1452-1519
~He was a great painter. He was also a poet, a music composer, a builder, a scientist and an inventor.
~He was called an all-rounder in the Renaissance. The perfect man was not just good at one branch of art and learning. He had to be excellent in many different branches of the arts. / Transparencies
Textbook p.11
6 mins / 3) Admire different masterpieces of Leonardo da Vinci in order to understand the new painting style in the Renaissance.
a) " The Mona Lisa " / ~It was a portrait of a Florentine woman. ~Free response of the students:
Do you like it, why?
~Why did "The Mona Lisa" become so famous?
Ans: This painting shows a woman smiling in a mysterious way.
Analysis “The Mona Lisa” painting techniques in order to show the new style of paintings in the Renaissance times.
→Leonardo da Vinci used a dark background.
→Three-dimensional effect in chief object.
→The chief object would look sharper and more realistic.
→The Renaissance painters were showing lively people with action. The Renaissance painters began to copy from real life. / Transparencies
Worksheet
10 mins / b) " The Last Supper " by Leonardo da Vinci. / ~When you're shopping, have you ever seen "The Last Supper" was used to become the theme / subject of the puzzle?
~It shows Jesus breaking bread with his twelve disciples the night before his betrayal.
What is the beauty of this painting?
~The various expressions on the faces of the disciples when Jesus announced that one of them would betrayed him.
~Jesus was made the central focus of the picture. His head is framed by the window overlooking a distant landscape.
→Perspective is a technique that gives objects the appearance of distance. Renaissance artists know how to make things look near or far away in order to highlight chief object.
(In the Middle Ages, the painters did not know to how to draw things in the background of a picture. Sometimes the Medieval artists put the background higher up.) / Transparencies
Worksheet
6 mins / c)"The Virgin on the Rocks " / ~The paintings in the Middle Ages were flat because they were used to please God.
~In the Renaissance, people started to interest in the human affairs not just for religion. They were interested in beauty around them.
~Do you know Leonardo used what kind of new painting style to arrange the elements of a painting and make the painting more beautiful?
Leonarldo used simple shapes such as circles and triangles to arrange the elements of a painting.
By using a circle, all figures were located in the centre of the painting. By using a triangle, Mary, the main figure, was especially highlighted as she was at the top of the triangle.
→They tried to show the beauty of the world and of the people around them. They still painted religious pictures but with a new spirit. / Student activity
2 mins / 3) Introduce Michelangelo
Sculptures:
a) Moses & David
b) Pieta / Michelangelo
~1475-1564
~the story of Michelangelo
~He was another example of all-rounder in the Renaissance times.
5 mins / a) Moses & David / ~Michelangelo's marble statue of Moses shows power and strength.
~“David” introduced movement and expression to an extent previously unknown in sculpture. Some parts of the body are very detailed.
~This famous work set a new standard in nude sculpture.
5 mins / b) Pieta / Pieta shows Mary holding the dead body of her son, Jesus Christ.
Michelangelo was able to surround the beautiful figures with a veil of sadness.
3 mins / Conclusion and finish the activity in textbook p.12-13. / The style of the Renaissance art was so different from the Medieval art. Humanism influenced the art in Renaissance times. / Textbook p.12-13