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fame 4.3 Michelangelo Buonarroti “Delphic Sybil” • Gregorian Chant
(Put materials on desks before beginning the lesson. After lesson use process board and outline for project.)
Welcome to our third FAME lesson for this year. In the first lesson we talked about artist William Harnett and his
painting My Gems. Do you remember what style of painting he was known for? Realism, a style of painting that
recreates the way objects and people look in real life. For a bonus, do you remember the fancy French word that
means “fool or trick the eye”? Trompe l’oeil. In our second lesson, we learned about Renoir, an Impressionist
whose painting Le Bal du Moulin de La Galette gives us the impression of the lively outdoor party scene.
The artist we will introduce today, Michelangelo (mick-el-AN-jel-oh)
Buonarotti (1475-1564), thought of himself as a sculptor more than a painter.
What does it mean to be a sculptor? You create art that you can see from all
sides rather than a painting which is flat and can only be seen from the front. To
make his sculptures, Michelangelo carved them from blocks of marble, a type of
stone. Can you imagine using nothing more than a hammer and chisel to
create art from a stone? When Michelangelo described his art he said, “Every
block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover
it.” You can share the photos of the Pietà, his sculptural masterpiece at 24—
carved from a single slab of Carrara marble. It is his only signed work.
Michelangelo, an artistic genius who sculpted, painted and wrote poetry lived
and worked in Italy during the Renaissance. During this time period art and
learning were celebrated and artists discovered how to use science and math to
paint people, buildings and landscapes in perspective. Because Michelangelo
was such a famous sculptor, he was asked by the Pope to take on a really
difficult project: to paint the ceiling of a special church, The Sistine Chapel.
He had not painted since he was a student and had to learn all of the new
techniques for using perspective to make the ceiling look realistic from 60 feet below. By using perspective,
Michelangelo was able to make his paintings look like sculpture. For older students add detail from text box and
binder or provide demonstration.
OBJECTIVE: Introduction to how
Renaissance artist
Michelangelo used
perspective to give the
painted Sistine Chapel
ceiling sculptural effects.
Introdcution to a capella
and Gregorian Chants.
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” Michelangelo
INTRODUCTION:
4.1: Harnett My
Gems, REALISM
4.2 Renoir, Le Bal
du Moulin,
IMPRESSIONISM
ARTIST: Michelangelo
Buonarotti (1475-1564)
Italian High
Renaissance
Considered himself
a sculptor
Use of science and
math to achieve
PERSPECTIVE
Used PERSPECTIVE
to make paintings
look like sculptures
Vocabulary: PERSPECTIVE
Perspective is a system for representing 3-
dimensional space on a flat surface, based
on the way our eyes see. When objects
get further away they appear smaller.
If you follow the angle lines of the columns
and decorations they will all meet at a
single point, called the vanishing point. It
is that spot on the horizon line to which
the receding parallel lines diminish. As
things get further away, from us, they
seem smaller and closer together.
Artists use this and techniques like
foreshortening in a flat painting so figures
appear to project out of the wall as a
sculpture would.
Sculpture uses the art elements that we study in a painting but in a little different way. In painting, can you see a
LINE when you stand in front of it? yes. If I show you the back of it, can you still see it? No. With a sculpture, you
can follow the 3 dimensional curves, or LINES from all sides, all the way around.
Let’s look closely at one of the figures from the ceiling: The Delphic Sibyl. Sibyl means that the woman could tell
what would happen in the future, like a fortune teller, and Delphic means that she came from the city of Delphi in
ancient Greece. She is both graceful and powerful with a harmony of proportion. Her elbow and knee appear to
extend from the ceiling appearing more sculpture than painting. The overall circular composition of her body
echoes the contours of the painted architectural setting—it is difficult to tell what is painted and what is real!
Michelangelo built special scaffolds and used long handled brushes while
tilting his head back to reach straight up and paint. You can demonstrate
this posture and ask the students to try holding up their hands over their
heads while you ask the following questions: How long do you think he
spent working on this project? Do you think you would get tired of doing
this after 4 minutes? How about 4 hours? Maybe 4 days? He worked on
the Sistine chapel for 4 years!
The ceiling took so long because The Delphic Sybil was one of only
nearly 300 figures he painted on the ceiling! He was commissioned to
paint 12 Apostles on the ceiling, but Michelangelo thought that would be
a “poor affair” and ended up painting nearly 300 figures on over 5800
square feet. It was his belief that “the greater danger for most of us lies
not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim
too low, and achieving our mark.” He painted the history of the creation
of the world through religious stories. Use binder or weblinks to show full
scale and map of ceiling. But the stories he brings to life are for everyone:
they are about darkness and light, good and evil, creation and
destruction. Photographs cannot communicate the power of the painting.
It is overwhelming, huge, energetic and brilliant and the figures seem to
spring out of the ceiling with such force that you want to cover your head so they don’t come crashing down on
you!
Just as Michelangelo “took away” stone to reveal the sculpture inside, you will have an opportunity to be a
sculptor and chip away at your block. Today, rather than marble, you will use soap for a very unique FAME project.
This will help you understand the process of sculpting as well as provide something special to take home. Let’s get
started!
While we work we will listen to a meditative kind of music, Gregorian Chants. Add any details from box above.
ART ELEMENT: LINE in
sculpture becomes 3
dimensional
ART: The Delphic Sibyl
from the Sistine Chapel
Ceiling Fresco
Seer from city of
Delphi
Appears like
sculpture
Sistine Chapel Ceiling:
Took 4 years to
complete
Painted standing
with arms reaching
and head tilted
back
Michelangelo
rejected 12 figure
proposal and
created almost 300
Art Project: Blocks of soap
to “chip away” sculpture
GREGORIAN CHANTS
600AD, DARK AGES
FEW COULD READ/WRITE
CHANTS USED TO TEACH PEOPLE
ABOUT RELIGION
FIRST MUSIC TO BE WRITTEN
DOWN
SUNG IN LATIN
NO RHYTHM, HARMONY,
DYNAMICS ONLY SIMPLE MELODY
SUNG A CAPELLA: NO MUSICAL
INSTRUMENTS
ALL SUNG TOGETHER AS “ONE
VOICE”
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