Lux Spring 2022

  The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger   Art Study This week we learned about the thought-provoking painting by Hans Holbein the Younger. Here is an excellent video that goes into detail about the painting . Highly recommend watching , about six minutes long. Before painting The Ambassadors , Holbein had made a name for himself for illustrating a popular book by Erasmus (which we will learn about next week), and for his Dance with Death Renaissance woodblock prints. Here is a page with all the images and information about it. Highly recommend , but preview if you think it is too morbid for your students. He did each one on tiny woodcuts. (My boys were very interested in these woodblock prints. It was interesting to look at the different types of people, and how Death comes for them all. My kids were inspired and were making their own drawings after looking at these. Also, we listened to a reading of the Challenge Poem---see below---for the Form II class, and we took a...

  Morning, An Overcast Day, Rouen, by Camille Pissarro   Scripture: Alma 34:9-10. This week we had the students practice memory of the scripture together.   Gethsemane, by Liz Lemon Swindle    Pissarro and his wife Julie Vellay, 1877 Art Study: Pissarro's industrial cityscape series of Pont Boieldieu in Rouen. We mentioned how the French army destroyed the bridge in 1940 at the start of WWII, to delay the Germans from crossing the River Seine. Some students made up stories about the paintings. In this video one can see remnants of a destroyed bridge at Rouen in 1940; it is assumed to be Pont Boieldieu.  Hymn: Rock of Ages . For fun we tried to learn the alto and soprano parts separately. We get an A for effort. Composer Study: Giacomo Puccini is our composer. His operas are the most famous. We listened to the story behind his most famous aria, Nessun Dorma . Here are wonderful performances by the great Pavarotti here , and a younger Pavarotti here .  ...