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Lesson Plan
Student-Teacher Name: Lau Kit Chi
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
Content
Spent
1 min 1) Revise the last lesson
content:
Humanism influenced the
art in Renaissance times.
2 mins 2) Introduce one of the best
known Renaissance
artists—Leonardo da
Vinci
Teacher & Student activities
Question & Answer:
~ Revise the main idea of the Medieval
art.
~ Show how was the Renaissance art
influenced by Humanism?
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.
Teaching-aid
materials
Textbook p.10
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. Transparencies
~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.
Worksheet
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.
10
mins
b) " The Last Supper " by
Leonardo da Vinci.
~When you're shopping, have you ever Transparencies
seen "The Last Supper" was used to
become the theme / subject of the
Worksheet
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.)
6 mins c)"The Virgin on the Rocks ~The paintings in the Middle Ages
Student
"
were flat because they were used to
activity
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.
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 Textbook
different from the Medieval art.
p.12-13
Humanism influenced the art in
Renaissance times.