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Arts
Quarter 2 - Module 2:
The Arts of Renaissance and
Baroque Period
MAPEH (Arts) - Grade 9
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Quarter 2, Module 2: Arts of The Renaissance and Baroque Period
First Edition, 2020

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 What I Need to Know

This module was designed and written for the learners. After going
through this module, the learners are expected to:

1. reflect on and derive the mood, idea or message from selected

artworks (A9PL-IIh-2);
2. discuss the use or function of artworks by evaluating their utilization
and combination of art elements and principles (A9PL-IIh-3);
3. use artworks to derive the traditions/history of an art period
(A9PL-IIh-4);
4. compare the characteristics of artworks produced in the different art
periods (A9PR-IIc-e-1);
5. create artworks guided by techniques and styles of the Renaissance
and the Baroque periods (A9PR-IIc-e-2); and
6. apply different media techniques and processes to communicate ideas,
experiences, and stories showing the characteristics of the
Renaissance and the Baroque periods (e.g., fresco, sfumato, etc.)
(A9PR-IIf-4).

What I Know

Below is an artwork from the Baroque period, examine it and answer

the questions that follows. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.

“Las Meninas”
https://www.britannica.com/to
pic/Las-meninas

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1. Do you think that this artwork has a particular function/purpose? If yes,
what is it? If none, why did you say so?
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

2. Do the artwork serves its function/purpose? How?

__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

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Lesson
Famous Renaissance and Baroque
1 Artworks and Artists

Renaissance famous artworks were made by the following famous

artists: Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, Leonardo di ser Piero
Da Vinci, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino and Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi.
These artists made their fair share of contributions on arts during the
period.

On the other hand, Baroque famous artworks were made by the

following famous artists: Michelangelo Merisi or Amerighi da Caravaggio,
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van
Rijn and Diego Velasquez, which played a big part in transforming the
characteristic of art from the grace and lightness of the Renaissance to a
broader, heavier and massive forms of art in Baroque period.

What’s In
In the box below, underline the words that are related to our past lesson
then, write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.

L L E O N A R D O D A V I N C I
U A E J T K F B S R T Q P B A F
O W B E R N I N I X S R W T R W
S Z I L L K B P V C X A S Z A Q
D P O R E N A I S S A N C E V R
E D E L K S R M O N A L I S A P
S F E S L U O S D E N M A D G T
S G D S K P Q F D Q J M F F G J
E K E F J K U Q W O O L L G I D
L L M I C H E L A N G E L O O B
B S L Q H C E T F F G K J H M H

Renaissance Period Baroque Period

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 What’s New

Look at the picture below. Examine it carefully. Write your answer on a

separate sheet of paper.

“The Transfiguration”
https://mydailyartdisplay.wordpre
ss.com/2012/9/23/the-
transfiguration-by-raphael/amp/

1. What do you think is the message of the painting “The Transfiguration” by

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
2. Why do you think Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino made the painting “The
Transfiguration”?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
3. If you were Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, what other details will you add or
delete from the painting? Why?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

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 What is It

Art of the Renaissance Period

Renaissance started in 1400 until 1600, it comes from the word

“renaitre” which means “rebirth”, “revival” and “rediscovery”. The arts during
this period were characterized by calmness, beauty, scientific perspective,
deeper landscape and accurate anatomy.

Paintings during this period portray real-life figures, sfumato and

chiaroscuro technique, sculptures were realistic portraits of human beings,
and architecture during renaissance period was distinguished by symmetry
and balance.,

The Renaissance famous artworks were made by the following famous

artists:

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael) (1483-1520)

An Italian painter and architect, Raphael’s

works were adored because of the following
characteristics: clarity of form, ease of composition,
the optic achievement of interpreting the Divine,
and integrating Christian doctrines. He established
Raffaello Sanzio da the traditional trinity of great masters of that period
Urbino (Raphael) together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci.
https://en.m.wikipedia. His distinctive draftsmanship and compositional
org/wiki/Raphael
skills were his main
contributions. His famous
works were: The Sistine Madonna, The School of
Athens, and The Transfiguration.

Raphael’s last painting were the

Transfiguration, he worked on it up to his death.
The artwork displays his development as an artist
and the pinnacle of his career. The lower part of
the painting shows an additional episode from the “The Transfiguration”
Gospel. This shows the sign of the Last Judgment, https://mydailyartdisplay.
wordpress.com/2012/9/2
and the final defeat of the evil. The artwork was 3/the-transfiguration-by-
then Commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de Medici, raphael/amp/
the late Pope Clement VII, for the Narbonne
Cathedral in France.

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 Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi
(Donatello) (1386- 1466) was one of the Italian
great artists of the period, an early Renaissance
Italian sculptor from Florence. Donatello is known
for his work in bas-relief, a form of shallow relief
sculpture. His works were: David, The Statue of St.
George, The Equestrian Monument of Gattamelata,
The Prophet Habacuc, and The Feast of Herod. Donato di Niccolo di
Betto Bardi
David is one of his
(Donatello)
masterpieces and was
https://www.ancient.eu
known as the first free- /Donatello/
standing nude statue
since ancient time. The
artwork indicates the return of the nude sculpture
in the round figure. The artwork “David” was
intended for the display in and decoration of
“David”
Palazzo Medici’s courtyard, in which they believed
https://www.ancient.eu/i it was accountable for the prosperity of Florence.
mage/12615/david-by-
donatello-detail/

The Art of Baroque Period

Baroque period started from 1600, right after the Renaissance period
and lasted until 1800. The word Baroque came from the Portuguese word
“barocco” meaning “irregularly shaped pearl”. The art during this period was
characterized by exaggerated emotions (forms, space, color, mass, light, and
energy).

Paintings during this period was embellished by the Catholic dogma

key elements, Sculptures were commonly huge than life-size and
Architecture was designed to produce spectacles and illusions
(Renaissance straight lines were replaced with flowing curves).

Baroque famous artworks are made by the following famous artists:

Peter Paul Rubens (1577- 1640) was a

Flemish Baroque painter, known for his paintings of
mythical and figurative subjects, landscapes,
portraits, and Counter- Reformation altarpieces. His
Peter Paul Rubens famous works were: Samson and Delilah, Landscape
https://www.theartstory.
org/amp/artist/rubens- with a Tower, Portrait of Helene Fourment, and The
peter-paul/life-and- Three Graces.
legacy/#nav

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 The Portrait of Helene Fourment was made by
Rubens having his second wife as a model. This
artwork was made in preparatory study for an oil
painting in Munich.

Rembrandt Harmenszoon
van Rijn (1606-1669) a
brilliant Dutch realist, https://gulbenkian.pt/m
useu/en/works_museu/p
painter, and etcher. ortrait-of-helena-
Rembrandt was regarded as fourment/
one of the greatest painters
and printmakers in European art. He was interested
Rembrandt in spiritual values and often prefers religious subjects
Harmenszoon van Rijn even if he followed no particular faith. He shares the
https://www.nationalga
llery.org.uk/artist/remb revolution with Rubens through which painting came
randt to illustrate the more personal aspects of the painter.
Rembrandt painted himself as often as the other artists. Rembrandt had
produced over 600 paintings, nearly 400 etchings, and 2000 drawings.
His well- known work was his “Self-portrait in Old Age”.

Diego Velasquez (1599- 1660) was one of the

finest masters of composition. He is one of the most
salient painters of the Spanish Golden Age. He
worked out solutions to pictorial problems, a
painter who discovered his avocation almost at the
beginning of his career. Velasquez’s passion for still
life frequently comes out in his art. His famous
Diego Velasquez
https://theartstory.org/art works were: The Surrender of Breda, Las Meninas
ist/velasquez-diego/life- (The maids of honor), Los
and-legacy/
Barachos (The Drinker), and
Maria Theresa.
He created “Las
Meninas” four years before to his death. The
artwork served as an outstanding example of the
European baroque period of art. The subject of Las
Meninas was Margaret Theresa, the eldest daughter “Las Meninas”
of the new Queen. The painting works to https://www.britannica.
com/topic/Las-meninas
enlightened the royals, showing that they were just
like any other family.

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 What’s More
Activity 1. Using the VENN Diagram below, compare and contrast the
characteristics of artworks produce during the Renaissance and Baroque
period. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.

Characteristics of Characteristics of
Renaissance Baroque
Period Period

Activity 2. Examining the artworks from the Renaissance period below,

what do you think are the traditions and culture of the people in the
Renaissance period? Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.

“Monalisa”by Leonardo da Vinci
Image from CCP Library,
(Image from Treasures of the
World book, by Golden
Press,Inc.,Copyright 1961)
“The Transfiguration”
“David”
https://mydailyartdispla
https://www.ancient.e
y.wordpress.com/2012/
u/image/12615/david-
9/23/the- by-donatello-detail/
transfiguration-by-
raphael/amp/

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 What I Have Learned

Complete the chart below. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.

RENAISSANCE PERIOD

ARTISTS

ARTWORKS

FUNCTION

BAROQUE PERIOD

ARTISTS

ARTWORKS

FUNCTION

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 What I Can Do

LET’S PAINT!
Materials needed:
Bondpaper/oslo paper
Paint
Paint brush
Picture (family member)

Procedure:
1. Take a picture of one of your family members.
2. Paste it at the upper right side of your bond paper/oslo paper
3. Paint him/her using media techniques (sfumato and chiaroscuro) with a
principle/characteristics of Renaissance or Baroque Art
4. Always make your working area clean
5. Take a picture of you following the procedure while doing your artwork.
(Attach it with your output.)
6. When done, cover your painting and pass it to your teacher.
Rubric:
Parameters 4 3 2 1
Attractivenes The artwork is The artwork The artwork is The artwork
s/Neatness pleasing to the is somehow somehow is not neat
eyes, in terms pleasing to pleasing to the and the
of neatness the eyes, in eyes, but not color
(no dirt, stain terms of neat (dirt, combination
and water neatness stain and is not
marks), color (minimal dirt, water marks), contrasting
combinations stain and and the color
and paint water marks), combinations
application color color were
combinations somehow not
and paint contrasting
application

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Subject/ The artwork The artwork The artwork The artwork
Theme showed showed showed did not
principles and minimal minimal show
characteristics principles principles and Renaissance
of Renaissance and characteristics or Baroque
or Baroque art characteristic of Renaissance art style, its
s of or Baroque art characteristi
Renaissance but not easily cs and
or Baroque recognized principles
art
Artwork Instructions One Two Three or
Procedure were followed instruction instructions more
found evident was not were not instructions
to the output followed followed were not
followed

Score Description:

11-12 points = excellent

8-10 points = very good
5-7 points = good
3-4 points = needs improvement

Assessment

Below is an artwork from the Baroque period, examine it and answer the
questions that follows. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.

“Las Meninas”
https://www.britannica.com/to
pic/Las-meninas

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1. Do you think that this artwork has a particular function/purpose? If yes,
what is it? If none, why did you say so?
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________

2. Do the artwork serves its function/purpose? How?

__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________

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What I Know What’s More
What's In
Student’s answer may Activity 1.
Renaissance Period
vary
Renaissance Characteristics
1. Michelangelo
2. Renaissance -calmness,
3. Leonardo da Vinci
4. Pieta
-beauty,
5. Monalisa -scientific perspective,
Baroque Period -deeper landscape
-accurate anatomy
1. Caravaggio -realistic portraits
2. Baroque -life-sized sculptures
3. Bernini
4. Blessed Soul
Baroque Characteristics
5. Damned Soul
-exaggerated emotions
What’s New -huge than life-sized sculpture
Student’s answer may (forms, space, color, mass,
vary light, and energy).
What’s More Summative Test
Student’s answer
II. Complete Me may vary
Renaissance Period
Artist Artworks
1. Raphael The Transfiguration, The Sistine Madonna,
The School of Athens
2. Donatello David, Statue of St. George, Equestrian
Monument of Gattamelata, Prophet Habacuc,
The Feast of Herod
Baroque Period
1. Rubens Portrait of Helene Fourment, Samson and
Delilah, Landscape with a Tower, The Three
Graces
2. Rembrandt Self portrait of Old Age, 600 paintings, 400
etching, 2000 drawings
3. Velasquez Las Meninas, The Surrender of Breda, Los
Barachos, Maria Theresa
Answer Key
References
Book:

Badiola, M., et al. (2014).Music and Arts Learner’s Material – Grade

9.Department of Education.Republic of the Philippines

Website:

“David by Donatello (Detail)”

https://www.ancient.eu/image/12615/david-by-donatello-detail/.
( Accessed Nov. 4, 2020)

“Diego Velasquez-Biography and Legacy”

https://theartstory.org/artist/velasquez-diego/life-and-legacy/,
(Accessed Nov. 4, 2020)

“Donatello”
https://www.ancient.eu/Donatello/ ( Accessed Nov. 4, 2020)

“Las meninas”
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Las-meninas.( Accessed Nov. 4,
2020)

“Peter Paul Rubens- Biography and Legacy”

https://www.theartstory.org/amp/artist/rubens-peter-paul/life-and-
legacy/#nav. ( Accessed Nov. 4, 2020)

“Raphael”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael ( Accessed Nov. 4, 2020)

“Rembrandt”
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artist/rembrandt.(Accessed Nov.
4, 2020)

“The Transfiguration”
https://mydailyartdisplay.wordpress.com/2012/9/23/the-
transfiguration-by-raphael/amp/. (Accessed Nov. 4, 2020)

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