13 Art History

Italian Art (Painting, Sculpture and Architecture): The late Renaissance and Mannerism in Florence, Venice and Rome.

Objectives

• To understand the contexts in which art is made.
• To differentiate between artist’s styles and understand the reasons for similarities and differences.
• To understand the values placed upon art works from a variety of contexts (Renaissance and Modern Art).

Content

For the standards 3.1, 3.3, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 students study art from mid-to-late fifteenth-century Italy through the works of Bellini and Mantegna in Venice and Botticelli, Verocchio and Leonardo da Vinci in Florence.  This provides a background to the development of the High Renaissance in Rome, where aspects of Michelangelo’s work and Titian’s work are studied. Mannerism is studied in the work of Pontormo, Bronzino and the late works of Raphael and Michelangelo.

For Standard 3.6 students study the value placed upon selected Renaissance works alongside modern art works of their choice.

Extra curricular activities that can extend students in Visual Arts include:

GDC_arts - Ongoing competitions, external Art and Photography competitions, Art lunchtime activities, Summerfest, School Art Exhibition, displays, assisting with School Production, community projects and scholarship.