Medieval+art

Medieval Art By: Kelsie N. 1. What is Medieval art? Medieval art is the combination of art from Germany, Rome, and the Islamic religion. picture from: []

2. What types of art were popular? The popular art was plain painting, fresco painting, architecture, sculpture, illumination, godlsmithery, furnishings, tapestries, mosaic, statue making, and stain glass. 3. Where was/is Medieval art displayed? In the Middle Ages, most of the art was displayed in churches. But today, Medieval art can be purchased, or displayed in museums.  4. Why was art in churches? The stories and pictures shown on stain glass and on fresco paintings told stories of the Bible to help people understand them. 5. Where was stain glass invented? In Europe, during the Middle Ages. It became popular when it was invented, and still is today. 6. What do medieval fresco paintings look like? picture from [] 7. Who is one medieval artist that painted frescos? Giotto di Bondone was a fresco painter from Italy. picture from [] Another fresco painter was Prokhor. He lived in the 1400s. <span style="font-size: 90%; color: #0000ff; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">8. What did Giotto di Bondone do? In 1305, he painted the Arena chapel, in Padula, Italy.-Note-this is when artists started making more modern forms of art..picture from [] <span style="font-size: 60%; color: #ff0052; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">9. Were all the medieval famous artists men? Most were, because women didn't have much importance. They made crafts. <span style="display: block; font-size: 70%; color: #000080; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif; text-align: left;">10. What did the male medieval artists use? A. Grozers= snipped off extra pieces of glass on glass work. Were made of flint. B. Latherkin=smoothed out lead. C. Tracing Brush= made fine lines when painting. D. Stippler= scraped away highlights after color had been put on the piece of art work. E. Hog's Hair Scrub was another tool.

<span style="color: #22b8c3; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">11. How did the art tools affect the art? The tools affected the art, because it gave the artists ways to make their art more accurate and beautiful, so it will look more like what they wanted it to. <span style="color: #a59a09; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">12. How did the art affect the society socially? The art affected the society, because it made the buildings look more beautiful, and made them look like they were high-classed society. The medieval artists also made history, because they invented/used their own art, and we still use it today. Also, it made the churches look more beautiful, and interesting, so more people wanted to go to church.

<span style="color: #d480f9; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">13. Did every society in the Middle Ages have the same kind of art? No, every society did not have their own art. Every civilization and religion in the Middle Ages had its own form of art. For example, the Gothic art in the Middle Ages was architecture. picture from: []

<span style="color: #9a139a; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">14. Were the famous people and artists in the Middle Ages remembered in any special way? If there was an important person, and the artist/sculptor was willing, they would make a full body, bust, or a gargoyle type statue of the person. <span style="display: block; color: #000000; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif; text-align: left;">15. Art in the Middle Ages might seem boring, and unimportant to some, but it highly impacted our society. Artists today learned a lot of what they know from studying art from the past. For example is stain glass. Stain glass windows are in almost every Christian/Catholic church, and the whole idea came from art in the Middle Ages. Since stain glass was invented in the Middle Ages, without it, our churches today would have totally different looks. They could be more or less interesting, speaking stain glass is very colorful. Also mosaic was used, which is used a lot today as well. Art today would be different in so many ways without ability to learn from past art. Different or no forms would have been invented.

Cited from: Langley, Andrew, Bridget Hopkinson, Vicky Wharton, Gillian Denton, Julia Harris. __Medieval Life.__ London: Alfred Knopf Inc, 1996.

__ Medieval Art __. 15 January 2009. Kidepede, History and Science for Middle School Kids. 16 April 2009 <[]>