Video Review

In the video More Human Than Human- The key concept was about realistic and unrealistic images of people that were being created In the beginning portraits of humans were never a true representation of how they looked in real life. Throughout time they have transformed into almost exact representations of what that person actually looked like.
This video relates to our readings this week because it helps reinforce what we read about the progression art made from unrealistic to realistic form in the creations of human sculptures and paintings.

The three video's I watched were: Cairo Museum, A World Inscribed: The Illuminated Manuscript, and Cataclysm: The Black Death Visits Tuscany.

In the video Cairo Museum- The key concepts were about the museum and all of the ancient artifacts inside it. I was surprised to learn that this museum is so large that they only show sections of at a time. I also learned that they relocated mummies so they could be near this museum, this video also helps with the understanding of how they preserve artifacts and the types of materials that were used to create each work of art.
This video relates to our reading this week because it helps reinforce what we read about the different types of materials that were used during that time.

In the video A World Inscribed-The key concept was about the production of manuscripts and books, who created them, and how long they took. I was surprised to learn that monks were the ones who created these and also about the amount of time and work that went into these but they came out amazing. I don't think i would ever have the time or patience to complete something like this.
This video related to our readings this week because it helped me further understand art from the middle ages.

In the video Cataclysm: The Black Death Visits Tuscany- The key concepts in this video were how the plague was transferred from place to place, how many works of art would be left never finished, how artist would now start becoming more interested in the "Divine World" and not so much the "Natural", and how this epidemic became one of the reasons for the Renaissance.
This video relates to our readings this week because again it helps reinforce our readings about art during the renaissance period.

I enjoyed watching all of these video's I always do because they help me understand our readings much more especially if I don't understand something I know the video's will touch base on it in some way. I have to say my favorite was Cataclysm: The Black Death Visits Tuscany, yes it was a sad and difficult time but I was very surprised that most artist placed much of their focus on creating art as it should be and not letting the issue surrounding them effect their work.