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**Humanities**
Q1 Cultural Ideas in Art: Use Fleming’s //Arts and Ideas// and the course Term Chart. Look up terms from the book, the dictionary, and [|on-line]. Make a slideshow for each unit below, focusing on representative works that illustrate the cultural ideas and the changes between cultures. The Movement into Humanism: Pre-Hellenic, Hellenic, Hellenistic The Movement away from Humanism: Roman Republic, Roman Empire, Early Christian and Byzantine, Romanesque Q2a The Return to Humanism: Gothic, Florentine, Roman Renaissance Development of Humanism in the South: Venetian Renaissance, Counter-Reformation (Roman Baroque) The Development of Humanism in the North: Northern Renaissance, Aristocratic Baroque, From Humanism to Individualism: Enlightenment, NeoClassical, Romantic

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Art of the Western World video program

 * 1. The Classical Ideal **
 * [|Part I]: ** (Episode 1)Traces the origins of humanism and the immortal classical style to Ancient Greece.
 * [|Part II:] ** (Episode 2)The genius of Roman engineering and architecture was used to build an empire, while portrait sculpture exalted its rulers.


 * 2. A White Garment of Churches — Romanesque and Gothic**
 * [|Part I:]** (Episode 3)With the fall of the Roman empire, Christianity flourished with the Church as patron of monumental Romanesque architecture and sculpture.
 * [|Part II]:** (Episode 4) The origin of Gothic architecture is found in the choir of the Abbey Church of St. Denis and the Chartres Cathedral serves as a model of High Gothic style.

[|**Part I:**](Episode 5) The rebirth of classical themes and humanistic ideas marked the Renaissance in Italy, as seen in Florentines Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Ghiberti, and Botticelli.
 * [[image:https://www.learner.org/newimages/resources/vod.gif width="24" height="16" align="right" caption="VOD" link="https://www.learner.org/resources/series1.html#"]]3. The Early Renaissance**
 * [|Part II:] (Episode 6)** Glowing color — made possible by the new medium of oil paint — and minute detail set the work of the Flemish masters Van Eyck and Grunewald apart from the Florentines.


 * [[image:https://www.learner.org/newimages/resources/vod.gif width="24" height="16" align="right" caption="VOD" link="https://www.learner.org/resources/series1.html#"]]4. The High Renaissance**
 * [|Part I:]** (Episode 7) Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael displayed extraordinary talent working in a variety of media and elevated the status of the artist in Italian society.
 * [|Part II:]** (Episode 8) Venetians like Titian, Tintoretto, and Palladio readapted the classical style with a theatrical flourish.


 * [[image:https://www.learner.org/newimages/resources/vod.gif width="24" height="16" align="right" caption="VOD" link="https://www.learner.org/resources/series1.html#"]]5. Realms of Light — The Baroque**
 * [|Part I:] (Episode 9)** The Church's campaign to counter the Reformation relied on dramatic depictions of religious scenes, such as those of Caravaggio and Bernini.
 * [|Part II:]** (Episode 10) The royal courts in Spain and the wealthy burghers in the Netherlands commissioned major paintings by Velazquez and Rembrandt and shaped their content.



Khan Academy [|Sumerian and Babylonian] [|Greek Art] [|Roman Art] [|Early Christian] [|Byzantine]

[|Art Encyclopedia]

Video in the Humanist Vein
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Q2b Museum Assignment

Students will prepare for visiting a museum by researching and presenting a slide show on the art and architecture of the Ancient Greeks and Romans and comparing that to the art of the United States.



Format for making your slide show based upon representative pieces

Term chart for cultural ideas