1. Helena Parrish Intro to Humanities 1010 November 3rd, 2009 Curator of Columbia, Tennessee

2. Introduction As the curator for the town of Columbia, Tennessee, three pieces of artwork have been chosen for selected locations around town. The mayor has been kind enough to give an unlimited budget for these pieces, which has helped greatly in achieving some of the most well renowned paintings of all time.

3. The first location for a selected painting is the City Hall of Columbia. The art piece chose is from a Medieval book of hours. The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (The VeryRichHours of the Duke of Berry). The monthchosen, January, depicts the Duke and other people have a large banquet. This is a good portrayal of an event and gatheringatthis time, whichis rare, sincemostartwork of thiseraconsisted of religiousmatter.

4. The Columbia City Hall

5. The month of January, Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry by the Limbourg brothers.

7. The three brothers Herman, Paul and Johan were active in the early 1400s, in France and Burgundy.

8. They created the best known medieval illuminated manuscript, Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.

9. Illuminatedmanuscriptsatthis time wereverypopular. They are minatureillustrastionsthatare a calendar, thatalsocontainprayersthat are to besaidatparticularhours of the day.

11. The second location for a selected painting is for the entrance of the local mall of Columbia. The selected painting is The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli, painted around 1482.

12. The Columbia Mall

13. The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli

16. Botticelli never married, however, he is believed to have loved Simonetta Vespucci as she was the model for The Birth of Venus and other paintings, though she passed away years before they were even painted.

17. Botticelli's paintings The Birth of Venus and Primavera are two of the most recognizable masterpieces of Florentine art.

18. The famous painting, The Birth of Venus, depicts the goddess Venus emerging from the sea.

20. The Renaissance is considered to be the rich period of the end of the Middle Ages.

21. The Italian Renaissance spanned from the late 1200s to around 1600.

22. Florence and Siena were the cities where the European Renaissance began.

23. The Renaissance was a era of reflecting the past, especially through art. The use of Greek and Roman mythology in artwork is a clear representation of that.

25. The third and final location for a selected art piece is McDowell Elementary School, located near downtown Columbia. The art piece chosen is Children’s Games by Pieter Breugel the Elder, painted in 1560.

26. McDowell Elementary School

27. Children’s Gamesby Pieter Bruegel the Elder

29. Breugel had two sons, Pieter Breughel the Younger and Jan Brueghel who became painters themselves, and never received any training from their father, since he passed just a few years after they were born.

30. Breugel also created a series of paintings in 1565 that represent the seasons, and only five remain: The Hunters in the Snow (for December through January), The Gloomy Day (Feb. to March), The Hay Harvest (June to July), The Harvesters (August to September), and The Return of the Herd (October to November).

31. A good amount of Bruegel’s artwork focus on the lives of Flemish commoners, such as Netherlandish Proverbs, Children’s Games, The Peasant Wedding, The Peasant Dance, and many more.

34. A.This portion of Children’s Games shows kids playing in a large pile of dirt, which is very similar to a sandbox that is seen in today’s playgrounds. B. This portion shows two boys dangling from a long wooden post. On playgrounds today, children’s monkey bars are very similar to this. C. Two children are riding opposite side of one another on a barrel. This greatly shows similarity to seesaws of today’s playgrounds.

35. Children’s Games McDowell Elementary School in Columbia, Tennessee, is a great choice to place Pieter Brugel’s painting Children’s Games because it is one of the older elementary schools in Maury County, and it’s antiquity will fit in well with the school’s own. Pieter Breugel’sChildren Games greatly depicts a close look at children playing in the 16th century. The games and actions some of the children are playing and doing look incredibly similar to today’s playtime. This painting is a great piece to go in an entryway to an elementary school because it shows the playfulness children have at this young age. The children in the painting are playing in ways children play now during the recess they are allowed to have until they reach middle school.

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