Video Review Module 9

Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance

Albrecht Dürer: Image of a Master

1. Explain why you selected each of the TWO videos you choose from the selection listed above.

    I selected the film about Leonardo da Vinci because I wanted to learn more about his life, and I am glad that I did so.  I chose the film Albrecht Durer: Image of a Master because he was mentioned quite a few times in our textbook and want to learn more about him.

2. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.

While watching the film about Leonardo da Vinci’s life I learned many things about him I did not previously know.  He believed motion was made up of two things: spiritual and material.  He studied machines and was an incredible innovator.  That his apprentice believed students should be trained in all forms of art so they were well rounded.  I loved seeing his sketches and seeing how they were precisely measured and mapped out.  He believed a painting held 10 attributes of sight.  He was the first one to dissect the human body and study it as an artist.  The amount of inventions he sketched out was massive. 

Albrecht Durer enjoyed painting hands.  He was extremely skilled in making woodcuts and made money selling them to travel.  He was the first true landscape artist, but also was an amazing painter of portraits.  He did a lot of work on perspective just as da Vinci did.  He used a grid to make things to the correct scale.  He was also a print maker and could make many prints.  His experience in this led to engraving cooper.

2. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?

I read about both of these men in our textbook and the videos expand upon the readings.  It gives us a different look at the artists.

3. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the readings and art concepts?

I thought the films were good, especially the one on Leonardo da Vinci’s life.  The textbook gives an brief overview of the artists and talk about their big contributions to art.  The videos get into a much greater detail and add to the contributions described in the textbooks.  I learned a lot of information from watching the videos that I would not have known had I only read the textbook.