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Station 1: Michelangelo
1. Read the information on page 295 about Michelangelo and summarize it in your own
words below.
2. Read the comic on pages 296-297 and answer the following questions:
a. What does Michelangelo think is the greatest form of art?
b. Why does Michelangelo NOT want to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
c. What happens when Michelangelo flees?
d. Does Michelangelo finish the painting? Is the Pope pleased with his work?
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Station 1: Michelangelo
3. Some people say that Michelangelo hid a brain stem in one of his paintings on the
Sistine Chapel. Check out the evidence at http://www.livescience.com/9972michelangelo-artfully-hid-brain-stem-god-throat.html (or google “Michelangelo Brain
Stem Livescience). Do you agree that this was purposefully done or do you think it was
just a coincidence? Defend your answer.
4. View the virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel.
http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/index_sistina_en.htm (or google “Virtual Tour
Sistine Chapel”).
a. Use your critical thinking skills to come up with some reasons that painting the
ceiling of the Sistine Chapel would have been a difficult task.
5. Michelangelo’s most famous sculpture is David. Complete this puzzle to reveal David’s
face http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/michelangelo-scr.htm (or google
“Michelangelos David Scramble”)
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Station 2: Da Vinci
1. Read page 298 and summarize the information about Leonardo Da Vinci in your own
words by answering the following questions;
a. Leonardo was a great painter. What else did he do?
b. Leonardo was the first to design many items. What were some of his designs?
c. Leonardo is considered to be a “Renaissance Man”. What does this mean?
d. What type of textbook had Leonardo planned to write?
e. What did Leonardo do to find out more about how the body was put together?
f. Leonardo wrote his notebooks in “Mirror Script”. One theory is that he did this
because he was left handed. Can you think of another reason why Leonardo may
have written in this way?
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Station 2: Da Vinci
2. View the following website http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20130828-leonardo-davinci-the-anatomist (or google “BBC Leonardo anatomical sketches”). Compare
Leonardo’s sketches with present day pictures. Choose one to describe using words OR
pictures below.
3. Play Make the Mona Lisa Smile
http://www.universalleonardo.org/activitiesSingle.php?id=526 (or google “Universal
Leonardo Make the Mona Lisa Smile”)
a. The Mona Lisa is also known as _________________
b. The Mona Lisa is painted on _________________________
c. Mona is a shortened version of the word ______________________
d. Mona Lisa’s smile has been described as _________________
e. Leonardo probably started painting the Mona Lisa in ____________
4. Da Vinci wrote in “Mirror Script”. This means he wrote backwards so that his words
could only be read when held up to a mirror. Try writing in Mirror Script using this
activity http://www.universalleonardo.org/activitiesSingle.php?id=527 (or google
“Universal Leonardo Mirror Image”)
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Station 3: Ninja Turtles
1. We have talked about Leonardo and Michelangelo, but what about the other ninja
Turtles???? Complete the table using the websites below:
http://tmnt25.crtti.com/turtle_power/bios.html (or google “turtle power character bios”) for
information on the ninja turtles.
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html (or google “Hyperhistory People”
then click ‘1500-2010’ then click ‘art’) for a brief biography on the renaissance artists.
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Biography
Ninja Turtle Biography
Ninja Turtle
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo
Donatello
Donatello
Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Raphael
Raphael
2. Comment on the comparison chart activity – are there any similarities between the
Ninja Turtles and the Renaissance Artists they were named after? Do you think they
were created in the image of the artists they were named after?
3. Create a Brief comic strip in which each Ninja Turtle meets the artist they have been
named after. What do you think they would say to one another?
Leonardo
Donatello
Michelangelo
Raphael
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Station 4: Gentileschi
1. Read the section entitled “Women Artists of the Renaissance”. Answer the questions
below in your own words.
a. What were women typically expected to do during the renaissance?
b. How might a woman become an artist during the Renaissance?
c. What made Sofonisba Anguissola unique as a female artist?
d. Barbara Longhi did some portrait painting, but what was her other specialty?
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Station 4: Gentileschi
2. Read the following biography of Atemisia Gentileschi and information about her most
famous work “Judith slays Holofernes” http://www.uffizi.org/artworks/judith-andholofernes-by-artemisia-gentileschi/ (or google “Uffizi Judith and Holofernes”)
a. As a female artist, Artemisia was the first woman to become a member of which
prominent academy in Florence?
b. What were the typical themes Artemisia painted about?
c. What is the story of Judith and Holofernes?
d. Why was this work hidden in a dark corner of the Pitti Palace after its
completion?
3. Why do you think Gentileschi’s “Judith Slaying Holofernes” would have been a
controversial painting during the Renaissance? (you will not find this answer on the
website or in the textbook… think critically using the information that you know)
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Station 5: Medieval vs. Renaissance Art
1. View the booklet of pictures from the Middle Ages. Make at least 5 observations and
inferences in the table below.
Observation
Inference
(What do you see in the pictures??)
(What can you guess to be true about
Medieval art based on your observation?)
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Station 5: Medieval vs. Renaissance Art
2. View the booklet of pictures from the Middle Ages. Make at least 5 observations and
inferences in the table below.
Observation
Inference (What can you guess to be true
(What do you see in the pictures??)
about Renaissance art based on your
observation?)
3. Come up with at least three major differences between Medieval and Renaissance art.
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Station 6: Proportion and Perspective
1. Read page 294 and define the following.
Proportion: Things in the distance are smaller. Creates a 3D image.
Perspective: Things are the right size in relation to each other (people vs. buildings)
2. View the pictures in your station docs and decide whether each one is in proportion or
not in proportion. Explain how you know.
Picture # In Proportion or NOT in
How do you know?
Proportion
1
2
3
4
5
6
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Station 6: Proportion and Perspective
3. Use the space below to create a picture following the rules of perspective (see your
station docs).
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Work Ethic
Day 1
Give yourself a work ethic mark below (G, S or N) based on the following criteria:
Stayed with your group
Used your time effectively
Was not disruptive to your own group or others
Stayed with your group
Listened to instructions (for example, did not open the KEY envelope early)
Mark (G, S ,N)
Justification
Please provide feedback on the stations you completed today in the space below
What did you like? Not like?
Was there too much time? Too little time?
Suggestions for improvements.
Feedback:
Day 2
Give yourself a work ethic mark below (G, S or N) based on the following criteria:
Stayed with your group
Used your time effectively
Was not disruptive to your own group or others
Stayed with your group
Listened to instructions (for example, did not open the KEY envelope early)
Mark (G, S ,N)
Justification
Please provide feedback on the stations you completed today in the space below
What did you like? Not like?
Was there too much time? Too little time?
Suggestions for improvements.
Feedback: