Patron-izing

Day 64:

On Thursday my students will be taking a quiz on the material from our Meso-America Unit. The information comes from Chapters 11 and 12. Chapter 13 is on the Renaissance and the book often turns itself to that section as I’m opening it each period.

Most people like of the art and artists when they think of the Renaissance, and that makes sense. But today as pages from Chapter 13 turned up when I opened the textbook I kept thinking about the patrons of the arts, the wealthy upper class members that financed the artists so they could produce their masterpieces.

A series of thoughts unfolded and I thought what it would have been like to have been such a figure. Imagine, being someone that saw the talent of a young Raphael or Michelangelo and letting them know that for the rest of their life their living expenses would be cared for so they that could produce their art. What a treat that must have been.

And then I thought how we play out the role of patron every time we purchase music, or go see movies, or buy someone’s art.

And then I thought about a video I saw the other day and wondered if this guy will one day have a patron the way Da Vinci did….




Isn't he rad?!

I’m not sure what I learned today, but I sure enjoyed thinking some thoughts.
Where have your thoughts taken you late?