A Study on How to Appreciate Leonardo da Vinci's "Annunciazione (c. 1472-73)" : Understanding the West through Christian Painting

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  • レオナルド・ダ・ヴィンチ「受胎告知(1472-73年頃)」鑑賞攷 : キリスト教絵画による西洋理解
  • レオナルド ダ ヴィンチ ジュタイ コクチ 1472 73ネン ゴロ カンショウコウ キリストキョウ カイガ ニ ヨル セイヨウ リカイ

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Basically recognizing the West as a different culture, in this paper I consider how understanding the West by using paintings as instructional vehicles should be organized, mainly founded on a current important issue, "international understanding through art." This term appears in the sixth chapter, "Bijutsu (Art)" in the revised version of the Courses of Study for secondary schools. It was taken from the version now in use. In Japan, under westernization of life-style and globalization covering food, clothing and shelter, we feel that we understand the West well. But our understanding is actually vague and to grasp the western cultural depths is still hard. The depths are related to Christian mentality seen in the faith manner believing in Jesus, in a word, Christianity." For Japanese, it generally belongs to a really distant culture. (Staying in Brooklyn to study arts at Pratt Institute during two and a half years (1982-85) made me realize this fact.) So I interpret an enlightening effect required once in Christian Art as a sort of educational function and propose an idea of understanding the West through Christian Art (especially paintings depicting varied sacred subjects) in an art eucational field. This is the main theme of this paper. I selected Leonardo da Vinci's "Annunciation (c. 1472-73)," a fresh-looking masterpiece of his early years, as an object to see. (It is now widely accept ed as Leonardo's authentic piece by E. von Liphart's researches.) I scrutinize various interpretations based on texts (chiefly The Old and New Testaments because of its religious descriptions) and Christian iconography, partially showing mine. After this, I investigate teaching materials to understand the West through it, and at the final stage, try to give an exemplary program, referring to E. B. Feldman's inventive method, the four-steps critical inquiry of arts, which had been frequently adapted as teaching or learning structure in "Instructional Resources" regularly carried in art education.

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