Submitted by Kathleen Arola
Life Sized Renaissance Clothing
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Grade Level: 4 - 8 Length
of Lesson: 4 sessions
Studio * Aesthetics * Art History * Art Criticism *
Objectives:
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Students will be introduced to the crafts of the Renaissance time period.
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Students will sketch examples of Renaissance period clothing.
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Students will create life-sized paintings of Renaissance period clothing.
National Standards Addressed:
Content Standard #2: Using
knowledge of structures and functions
Content Standard #4: Understanding
the visual arts in relation to history and cultures
Content Standard #6: Making
connections between visual arts and other disciplines.
Purpose:
This is a seventh
grade art lesson connecting social studies with visual arts and art
criticism. Students will be
introduced to a study of crafts of the Renaissance era. This will set the mood for the time
period. Then the lesson will
culminate in painting dramatic life sized Renaissance period clothing, with
accuracy to the time period.
Vocabulary:
- Renaissance: a rebirth of
cultural awareness that took place during the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries, particularly in Europe
- Renaissance Festival: a
modern day acting out of the Renaissance time period
- Craft: manual activities
performed by artisans that require technical skill and manual dexterity,
oftentimes resulting in functional objects
- Chain mail: flexible armor
made of jointed metal links or scales
- Goblet: a drinking glass
with a stem and base
- Leather work: artwork
making use of the tanned skin or hide of an animal
- Glass blowing: the craft of
creating glassware, a brittle yet hard material made of silicates and an
alkali fused with other substances at high temperatures and blown into to
create a form
- Noblewoman/nobleman: person
- Bodice: the fitted part of
a dress from the waist to the shoulder
- Peasant: class of people
who are small farmer and laborers
- Tunic: a loose fitting coat
extending to the knees; a surcoat
- Doublet: a close fitting men’s jacket
- Pantaloons: long breeches
or pants worn usually by men
- Artisan: artist skilled in
a craft
- Farthingale: women’s hooped
skirt made of wire or wicker supports and worn under the cloth skirts in
order to make them expand out farther
- Cloak: a loose fitting outer garment such as a cape
Materials for session 1:
* Computer and Proxima for Arizona Renaissance
Festival craft pictures and
period clothing websites.
Procedure: Session 1
1. Watch power point
presentation about Arizona Renaissance Festival crafts as narrated by teacher. (PowerPoint was not supplied by the submitter but you should be able to glean enough images and information from their website into your own presentation.
2. View Renaissance clothing websites. (This one has women's clothing. You can also buy men's Italian Renaissance patterns
on Amazon)
3. Complete teacher created Renaissance
Clothing worksheet.
Materials for session 2:
* Completed teacher created Renaissance Clothing
Worksheet from last
session
* Pencils
* Large Kraft Paper
roll (6'/student)
Procedure: Session 2
1. Partners trace each other’s bodies with
pencil on craft paper.
2. Students sketch basic clothing details on
their craft paper, using their worksheet for a reference.
Materials for session 3:
* Completed teacher created Renaissance Clothing
worksheet
* Pencils
* Kraft Paper from previous session
* Tempera Paint
* Brushes
* Paint trays
Procedure: Session 3
1. Use pencils to continue to sketch clothing
details, using worksheets as a guide.
2. Paint clothing on Kraft Paper outlines.
Materials for session 4:
* Tempera Paint
* Brushes
* Kraft Paper from session 3
* Paint trays
Procedure: Session 4
1. Continue paintings from last session.
2. Paint hair styles and facial features.
3. Add background or accessories if time
permits.
Extensions:
Science: Research the
inventions of Leonardo Da Vinci. Then
plan your own modern invention.
Social Studies: Take a
field trip the Renaissance Festival, which is open weekends during February
and March. One weekday per year is
designated as student day.
Language Arts: Write a
journal entry from the point of view of the Renaissance character that was
painted.
Books
Medieval and Renaissance Fashion
- Drawn from the Louvre and other prestigious collections, these illustrations include French soldiers, German knights, crowned heads, and common folk in their finest apparel.
The Clothing of the Renaissance World
- Vecellio's two books on the costumes of the known world were hugely popular and influential in their time, and their lively descriptions and vivid illustrations have captivated readers ever since. This is the first time that the entire first edition of 1590, along with the New World section from the 1598 second edition, have been translated and published with their original woodcuts.
Renaissance and Medieval Costume
- Reproduced directly from a rare original early-19th-century edition, this illustrated study displays a detailed gallery of costumes worn in the 11th through the 15th centuries. The 120 full-color plates exhibit head-to-toe apparel worn by nobility, knights, soldiers, the bourgeois, ecclesiastics, and citizens of all classes.
Resources:
Evaluation and
reflection:
Student Name ________________________________ Date ______________
Rubric for Life Sized
Renaissance Clothing
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Completes Renaissance Clothing Worksheet |
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Paints shirt or bodice accurate for time period |
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Paints pants or skirt accurate for time period |
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Paints head wear, shoes and accessories accurate
for time period |
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Demonstrates neatness |
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