QUATROCENTTO ARCHITECTURE MARTIN MATEOS GAMEZ 2ºA

Quatrocentto. arquitectura m from Gamez1523

Heeey pupils, I have a found a very nice and interesting page where you can watch full chapters of the TV series: Isabel, it is in spanish, and it is quiet faithful to the real history.

Obviusly, as its name indicate the main character is Isabe, the catholic queen of Castile, but in the series is represeted the society, politicy and economy during the rule of Catholic Monarchs, even before and after its reign.

So, if you want to know more about this story watch it, probably you could appreciate their lifestyles, the castilian civil war, the customes during the beginning of Modern Age in Spain. Finally, I have to confess that also there is a love story between them (historically is not very known)


CAPÍTULOS SERIE ISABEL

DESCRIBING A RENAISSANCE PAINTING or SCULPTURE

As we have seen in class, it is very important to know how to describe a painting, in addition to this, we are in the unit about Renaissance in Art History, so you should create your own description with the details and customes I have explained in the last session. (mythology or scene represented, artist who created it, style, date, details about the style...) in order. 

Here, i put a range of paintings and sculptures more relevant during the Renaissance, most of them are made by italian artists, but not all, there are some about the German and Flanders renaissance style. Also, if you are really interested in the description of one that it does not appear in the entree, you could do it, but first, ask to me if it is possible, because probably it does not include in the Renaissance movement.

 PAINTINGS:

 -The birth of Venus: Boticceli 

-The Spring: Boticcelli 

-Flagellation of Christ: Piero della Francesca 

 -The last Supper: Leonardo da Vinci -Mona Lisa: Leonardo da Vinci

 -The Athens School: Rafael 

-The Sistine Chappel: as an entire painting, or just focus on a representation inside the huge frescoe. -The Bacanal: Tiziano

 -Danae receiving the golden rain: Tiziano 

-The Arnolfini marriage: Jan Van Eyck. 

-The descendent from the cross: Van der Weyden.

 -The garden of earthly delights: H.Bosch. 

 SCULTPURES: 

 -David: Danatello

 -S. George: Donatello 

-David: Michelangelo 

-Pieta: Michelangelo

 -Moises: Michelangelo

 -Cellini: Perseus with the head of Medusa.

 You have to choose one of these artisctic performances and describe it following the steps you have copied in your notebock "HOW TO DESCRIBE A RENAISSANCE PAINTING OR SCULPTURE" 

And remember: ENJOY DOING, IT IS QUITE INTERESTING! 

 DEADLINE: 23/02/2016. it is possible send it by email to: marinoteachersscc@gmail.com or give me in class the next Thursday.

POWER POINT. UNIT 6. REFORMATION AND RENAISSANCE

Hi guys! I hope you are having a really good afternoon thinking about the Renaissance world, and the perspective,  naked human figures or the extense range of artistic creation that the Renaissance man created. 

Here it is the Power Point, so there is no anythink that could avoid you to start studying. Besides, I hope you enjoy with the images, and remember. There are very important images in the art history, so you should know their name and the name of the artist who created them. 

Teresa García García and Alicia García García

THE INVENTION OF THE PRINTING PRESS

Most of us tend to take printed materials for granted, but imagine life today if the printing press had never been invented. We would not have books, magazines or newspapers. Posters, flyers, pamphlets and mailers would not exist. The printing press allows us to share large amounts of information quickly and in huge numbers. In fact, it is so important that it has come to be known as one of the most important inventions of our time. It drastically changed the way society evolved. In this article, I explain you how the printing press came about, as well as how it affected culture.

Life before the printing press

Before the printing press was invented, any writings and drawings had to be completed painstakingly by hand. It wasn’t just anyone who was allowed to do this. Such work was usually reserved for scribes who lived and worked in monasteries. The monasteries had a special room called a "scriptorium." There, the scribe would work in silence, first measuring and outlining the page layouts and then carefully copying the text from another book. Later the illuminator would take over to add designs and embellishments to the pages. In the Dark Ages and Middle Ages, books were usually only owned by monasteries, educational institutions or extremely rich people. Most books were religious in nature. In some cases, a family might be lucky enough to own a book, in which case it would be a copy of the Bible.

Inspiration and invention of the printing press

Around the late 1430s, a German man named Johann Gutenberg was quite desperate to find a way to make money. At the time, there was a trend in attaching small mirrors to one’s hat or clothes in order to soak up healing powers when visiting holy places or icons. The mirrors themselves were not significant, but Gutenberg quietly noted how lucrative it was to create mass amounts of a cheap product. During the 1300s to 1400s, people had developed a very basic form of printing. It involved letters or images cut on blocks of wood. The block would be dipped in ink and then stamped onto paper. Gutenberg already had previous experience working at a mint, and he realized that if he could use cut blocks within a machine, he could make the printing process a lot faster. Even better, he would be able to reproduce texts in great numbers. However, instead of using wood blocks, he used metal instead. This was known as a "movable type machine," since the metal block letters could be moved around to create new words and sentences. With this machine, Gutenberg made the very first printed book, which was naturally a reproduction of the Bible. Today the Gutenberg Bible is an incredibly valuable, treasured item for its historical legacy.

How the printing press works

With the original printing press, a frame is used to set groups of type blocks. Together, these blocks make words and sentences; however, they are all in reverse. The blocks are all inked and then a sheet of paper is laid on the blocks. All of this passes through a roller to ensure that the ink is transferred to the paper. Finally when the paper is lifted, the reader can see the inked letters that now appear normally as a result of the reversed blocks. These printing presses were operated by hand. Later towards the 19th century, other inventors created steam-powered printing presses that did not require a hand operator. In comparison, today’s printing presses are electronic and automated, and can print far faster than ever before!

Impact of the printing press

Gutenberg’s invention made a dramatic impact when it reached the public. At first, the noble classes looked down on it. To them, hand-inked books were a sign of luxury and grandeur, and it was no match for the cheaper, mass-produced books. Thus, printed materials were at first more popular with the lower classes. When word spread about the printing press, other print shops opened and soon it developed into an entirely new trade. Printed texts became a new way to spread information to vast audiences quickly and cheaply. Academics benefited from this dissemination of scholarly ideas and even politicians found that they could garner the public’s interest through printed pamphlets. An important side effect was that people could read and increase their knowledge more easily now, whereas in the past it was common for people to be quite uneducated. This increased the discussion and development of new ideas. Another significant effect was that the printing press was largely responsible for Latin’s decline as other regional languages became the norm in locally printed materials.

Sara Mayor Ranilla 2ºA

http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/itineraries/place/BasilicaOfSanLorenzo.html

Here I put a link where you can learn about an important Basilica called San Lorenzo, the story and the arquitect who work on it, the bibliography, and some of the photos taken in the Basilica.

Sofia Diaz Siguero 2B

THE KINGDOM OF ASTURIAS

   The kingdom of Asturias was created in 739 when some Christians Visigoth nobles took refuge in the Cordillera Cantabrica.

   Into these nobles was Pelayo wich defeated the Muslims for the first time in the Battle of Covadonga(722). With this victory the Reconquist of the Iberian Peninsula from Muslims began.

   Alfonso I and Alfonso II,his succesors,created the Kingdom of Asturias. Oviedo was its capital and they expanded their territories into Galicia.

   Later, in the 9th century, Alfonso III took control of a territory rulled by the emirs of Cordoba. This territory extended from the river Duero to the Kingdom of Asturias, that later was renamed as the Kingdom of Leon, in 854. Alfonso III built a defensive line of castles in de east of the Kingdom to protect his territory from Muslim army. This territory was named Castile. 

                                                                                                              By Angel Villacastin Sanchez 2ºA

Martin Luther King Alvaro Manzano Medina 2A

Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family.

In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank.

In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement.

At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize.