Unit Plan: 14th Century Italian Painting teacher



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Unit Plan: 14th Century Italian Painting

TEACHER: Laura le Page


YEAR
13


LEVEL
8


DURATION
15 weeks





Achievement Objectives Being Assessed

Learning Outcomes

Visual Arts
Understanding the Visual Arts in Context


Students will:



· Level 8: use research and analysis to investigate contexts, meanings, intentions, and technological influences related to the making and valuing of art works.

· Level 8: research and analyse contexts relevant to their intentions and to the expression of meanings in their own work.

Students will investigate the social and eco-political context of 14th Century Italian painting, analysing the relevance to selected art works.

Students will describe and evaluate the style of selected 14th Century Italian art works (with reference to colour, form, figures, brushwork, composition etc).

Students will explore the personal and regional styles of selected Sienese and Florentine artists and identify the similarities and differences.

Students will identify the role of narrative painting in 14th Century Italy.



Students will use research and analysis to investigate contexts, meanings, intentions and technological influences related to the making and valuing of art works.


Visual Arts
Developing Ideas in the Visual Arts


Students will:



· Level 8: generate, analyse, clarify, and regenerate options in response to selected questions or a proposal in a chosen field.

· Level 8: use a systematic approach, selectively informed by recent and established practice, to develop ideas in a body of work.

Visual Arts
Communicating and Interpreting in the Visual Arts


Students will:



· Level 8: research and analyse selected approaches and theories related to visual arts practice.

· Level 8: critically reflect on, respond to, and evaluate art works.

AIMS

Students will study theories associated with 14th Century Italian Painting.
Students will develop visual literacy, exploring concepts and contexts to create meanings.
All students to reflect on their own learning processes and to learn how to learn.
Students will be encouraged to value innovation, inquiry, and curiosity, by thinking critically, creatively, and reflectively.


LEARNING INTENTIONS

Use research and analysis to investigate contexts, meanings, intentions, and technological influences related to the making and valuing of art works.
Apply understanding from broad and deep research into the characteristics and constraints of materials, techniques, technologies, and established conventions in a selected field.
Critically reflect on, respond to, and evaluate art works.



KEY COMPETENCIES

Thinking
Using language, symbols, and texts
Managing self
Relating to others
Participating and contributing



TEACHER BACKGROUND READING

· Assessing in the Arts
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/arts/whatmeasure.asp

· Basic Steps in the Research Process
http://www.crlsresearchguide.org/

· The Art of the Matter: the development and extensions of ways of knowing in the Arts (PDF)
http://www.tlri.org.nz/pdfs/9218_summaryreport.pdf

· Learning Through the Arts
http://www.learningthroughart.org/research_findings.php

· Art the 4th R
http://www.jasonohler.com/projects/artfourthr-article.cfm

· The New Zealand Curriculum - Vision
http://arts.unitec.ac.nz/engageinarts/curriculum/vision.php

· The New Zealand Curriculum - Principles
http://arts.unitec.ac.nz/engageinarts/curriculum/principles.php

· The New Zealand Curriculum - Values
http://arts.unitec.ac.nz/engageinarts/curriculum/values.php

· The New Zealand Curriculum - Key Competencies
http://arts.unitec.ac.nz/engageinarts/curriculum/key_competencies.php

LEARNING SEQUENCE


Teaching and Learning Experiences

Ongoing Assessment Approaches

Art History terminology; how to look at a work of art. Slideshow /discussion of basis of art history via Madonna icon through the ages; Mona Lisa, Warhol�s Marilyn.

Timeline, Classical to Renaissance: HO of timeline, maps, example images. Annotate A3 versions.


Influences on Italian Painting around 1300: HO, slides, discussion.

A New Role for art in the Church: Caves to Canvas text, slides, notes. Girls complete questions

Sienese Contexts: Siena, Mary-ism, Cult of the Virgin, slides, discussion

Duccio�s Career: HO, slides, discussion
The Passion Narratives: Bible texts and images from the back of the Maesta. Make your own on A3 paper

Florence Contexts: HO Florence, Birthplace of the Renaissance, slides


Giotto�s Career: HO, slides

Arena Chapel Narratives: slides, HO images, view 25 min of Arena Chapel video & notes

Introduction to 3.1. and what it entails. Do a comparison � Lamentation/Christ Healing the Blind Man, slides, notes; complete final 25min of video


3.1 Task � The Betrayal. Students spend the spell doing the practice essay.


The Betrayal: slides, discussion � see assessment schedule. Peer-assess each others essays.

Treatment of space: Architectural, Giotto, scenes of Joachim and Anne, slides/notes

Treatment of space: Landscape, Giotto, slides/notes, chart to fill in Space Composition


Treatment of space: Duccio, slides/notes, complete chart


Entry into Jerusalem � compare Giotto, Duccio, Lorenzetti. Group work/presentations.


3.2 Introduction � Entry into Jerusalem


3.2 Brainstorm/plan essay. Choose specific examples from ptgs, share with partner, read through exemplars


3.2 Write essay


Simone Martini: Maesta, St Louis of Toulouse. Students read and annotate notes


Simone Martini: Focus on Life of St Martin Fresco


Simone Martini and 3.1 practice: Death of St Martin


Pietro Lorenzetti: Entry into Jerusalem. Last Supper cloze activity


Pietro Lorenzetti: Crucifixion, Deposition

Ambrogio Lorenzetti: Background, The Life of St Nicholas

Good and Bad Government

Good and Bad Government: Draw up diagram and label figures in the works

Plazzo Publico video. Quiz.

Individual Styles: Comparison of Giotto and Duccio; complete exercise.

Iconography in the Sala dei Nove

Introduce Humanism assignment 3.4

Research planning, brainstorm, writing etc

Reflection of 14th C Italian ptg. Quiz


Review and annotate exemplars, past exam responses for the external Achievement Standards

Students peer-mark essays

Review notes for quizes

Teacher formatively assesses students from their oral responses in class,









Summative Assessment

Students will be required to submit a researched essay on Humanism (Research Task 3.4 AS 90493)
Mock exams: Students will be required to sit a school examination that assesses Achievement Standards 90490, 90491 and 90495



ASSESSMENT

Arts

Learning Outcomes

Students will investigate the social and eco-political context of 14th Century Italian painting, analysing the relevance to selected art works.

Students will describe and evaluate the style of selected 14th Century Italian art works (with reference to colour, form, figures, brushwork, composition etc).

Students will explore the personal and regional styles of selected Sienese and Florentine artists and identify the similarities and differences.

Students will identify the role of narrative painting in 14th Century Italy.

Students will use research and analysis to investigate contexts, meanings, intentions and technological influences related to the making and valuing of art works.

Criteria



Students will:

Identify a range of stylistic characteristics in selected art works by Giotto, Duccio, Martini, Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti and distinguish between the styles.

Relate the stylistic characteristics of selected artists to 14th Century Italian society, economy and politics.

Describe and explain the importance of the meanings conveyed through a range of iconographic motifs in 14th Century art works.



Describe the context (personal and regional styles, naturalism, narrative, social/religious) of 14th Century Italian painting and evaluate the significance.


RESOURCES

Electronic

Other Web Resources

· http://arts.unitec.ac.nz/resources/

· http://www.tki.org.nz/e/community/ncea/resources.php

· http://arts.unitec.ac.nz/professional/

Print

· A History of Italian Renaissance Art, Frederick Hartt

· Class notes and handouts

· Giotto, Bruce Cole

· A Dictionary of Art and artists, Peter and Linda Murray

· The Dawn of Italian Painting 1250-1400, Alistair Smart

· The Birth and Rebirth of pictorial space, John White

· Art and architecture in Italy 1250-1400, John White

· Duccio, John White

· Giotto: The Arena Chapel frescoes, James Stubblebine

· Lives of the artists, Giorgio Vasari

· Painting in late medieval and renaissance Siena, Diana Norman

· Sienese Painting, Timothy Hyman

· Italian Art 1250-1550: the relation of renaissance art to life and society, Bruce Cole

· Painting, patronage and power, Bram Kempers

· Giotto, Scala

· Duccio, Scala

· Martini, Scala

· Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Scala

· Siena and the virgin: Art and politics in a late medieval city state, Diana Norman

· Duccio, Andrea Weber

· Art in renaissance Italy, Paoletti and Radke

Other

· Video: Giotto: The Arena Chapel - The Open University

· Video: Palazzo Pubblico, Siena - The Open University

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