Life Sized Renaissance Clothing

Submitted by: Kathleen Arola
Life Sized Renaissance Clothing for Substitute/Guest Teacher to follow:
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Grade Level: 4 - 8 Length of Lesson: 4 sessions

Studio * Aesthetics * Art History * Art Criticism *

 

Objectives:

* Students will be introduced to the crafts of the Renaissance time period.

* Students will sketch examples of Renaissance period clothing.

* 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. (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

* Drawing 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

* Drawing Pencils

* Kraft Paper from previous session

* Tempera Paint

* Brushes

* Paint trays

Procedure: Session 3

1. Use Drawing 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:

• The Arizona Renaissance Festival

• Gallery, Café and Workshops

• Exploring Leonardo Da Vinci website with introductory letter for teachers

• The Leonardo Museum in Vinci (Slow to load)

• Renaissance Period clothing on Pinterest

• Renaissance clothing patterns and costumes

• Renaissance clothing notions

• Links to descriptions of Renaissance Period clothing styles

Evaluation and reflection:

 

Student Name _______________________________________ Date _______________________

 

Rubric for Life Sized Renaissance Clothing

 

	Exceeds	Meets	Progressing	Unsatisfactory
Completes Renaissance Clothing Worksheet
Paints shirt or bodice accurate for time period
Paints pants or skirt accurate for time period
Paints head wear, shoes and accessories accurate for time period
Demonstrates neatness

 

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