The Renaissance
Facade
Monica Cerkez
9th Grade
St. Mary's County Public Schools, Division of Instruction
Content
Area: Visual Art I
Lesson
Planning Frame
Stage 1: Identify Desired Results
Essential
Curriculum
(Reference
St. Mary’s County School System’s Essential Curriculum)
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Outcome
I – Perceiving and Responding Aesthetic Education –
Expectation A
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Outcome
II – Historical, Cultural and social context – Expectation
A, Expectation B, Expectation C, Expectation D
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Outcome
III – Creative Expression and Production – Expectation
A, Expectation B, Expectation C
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Outcome
IV – Aesthetics and Criticism – Expectation A
Enduring
Understanding
What enduring
understandings are addressed?
Patronage from
Royalty, Rich Merchant Families and the Church (With an eye on immortality)
created opportunities for Renaissance Artists to design building that
expressed the Ideals of the era, including classical motif. These
Artists served as not only designer, but engineer, decorator and scientist
as well.
Essential
Questions
What essential
questions will be considered?
What elements
identify as building as Renaissance style? Why?
Key Content
Knowledge and Skills
What key
content knowledge, skills, and processes will students acquire as
a result of this lesson?
- Students will
be familiar with the works of renaissance architects.
- They should
understand the connection with the classical world and the idea of
artist and patron as “Renaissance Man”
Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence
Assessment
What will
students do to develop the desired knowledge/proficiencies?
- Students will
create a drawing of an ideal building using the ideas of period architects
(Alberti, Brunelleschi, and Bramante)
- Students will
participate in an oral critique and produce a written reflection.
Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction
Lesson
Components
(May include
Anticipatory Set, review, Presentation of New Concepts, Guided Practice,
Independent Practice, and Closure as appropriate.)
- Opening Day 1:
Look at the Prints: (Alberti, Brunelleschi, and Bramante) What elements
identify as building as Renaissance style?
- Opening Day 2:
What is the Tempietto? What is it’s purpose?
- Opening Day 3:
Who designed the Duomo in Florence? Why is it important?
- Presentation of
New Concept - Lead discussion (Using prints and examples) on the nature
of architecture in the Renaissance. Include Ideas of celestial perfection
(Shakespeare, Dance - the perfection of the circle and square), Classical
elements, the advances in science, patronage, humanism, and monumental
architecture as an expression of wealth, power and restraint. Include
the Idea of “Renaissance Man.”
- Demonstration
- Guided Practice: Distribute the circle/square matrix. Demonstrate
how to apply classical elements to create a Renaissance façade
in pen and ink.
- Independent Practice:
Students complete Renaissance façade in pen and ink.
- Closing - Written
Reflection, Group critique.
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