strayer hum111 week 7 discussions both latest may 2015

"Late Medieval Art, Literature, and Plague" Please respond to the following, using sources under the Explore heading as the basis of your response:

• Quote a one (1) or two (2) line section that you enjoy from Petrarch, Chaucer, Boccaccio, or Christine de Pisan, and provide your reason(s) for the choice. Next, describe the historical significance of the writer whose work you have chosen. Comment on the degree to which the Black Death epidemic (1347-1350 CE) impacted that writer’s work. Compare the writer you chose to a specific writer (whether prose writer or poet or lyricist) of modern times.

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Late Medieval Art, Literature, and Plague

• Chapter 13 (pp. 449-453, 456, 462-3), Boccaccio; (pp. 453-4), Petrarch; (pp. 454-6), Chaucer; (pp. 455-457), Christine de Pisan
• Chapter 13 ( 449-451, 458), The Plague
• The Plague at http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/black_death_of_1348_to_1350.htm

"Leonardo, the Renaissance Master" Please respond to the following, using sources under the Explore heading as the basis of your response:

• Describe the moment captured in Leonardo’s Last Supper painting, and discuss the reasons why disciples are shown on the same side of the table. Describe the most well-known techniques that Leonardo used to give more realism to the painting. Next, discuss one (1) of Leonardo’s inventions (or proposed inventions) that most fascinates or surprises you, and explain why. Compare Leonardo to some modern figure of the 20th or 21st century.

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Leonardo da Vinci

• Chapter 14 (pp. 489-492), art of da Vinci; review Week 7 Music Folder
• Partial restoration of the Last Supper at http://www.philvaz.com/apologetics/LeonardoLastSupper.htm
• Images, article, and 16th century copy of the Last Supper at http://www.abcgallery.com/L/leonardo/leonardo4.html
• Leonardo’s work in science and invention at http://www.museoscienza.org/english/leonardo/models-exhibited (scroll down to thumbnail photos; click to enlarge and read more information)