1) The two videos I choose were “The Drawings of Michelangelo” and “Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance”. Not because they were the first two, but because they seemed like the most interesting to me. The first one is about drawing, a topic I am interested in more than other and I am always interesting in learning more about Leonardo, as he was so much more than just an artist.
2) The key concept of the Da Vinci video was studying the man’s life as a whole, rather than concentrating on just the artistic side of it. This was good for me, as an engineering student, as da Vinci contributed many things to the fields of engineering and science. A key concept I learns about Michelangelo was that many of his famous works of art started out as sketches.
3) The videos I choose related very much to the reading in the text. As Ch16 was all about The Renaissance and spoke at length about da Vinci and Michelangelo. In contrast, the Michelangelo video was about his drawings rather than paintings and sculptures of the book and Da Vinci was about his life as a whole rather than just his art that the book depicts.
4) The videos, as they always do, added a lot of depth to my understanding of this week’s course work. Since this week was all about the renaissance it was nice to watch videos that didn’t focus completing on the art of the period but also the culture and people of the period. It adds up to give a very broad understanding of what the era was actually like rather than just the art of the era.
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