CHAPTER 5:
This video shows a simple step-by-step tutorial for how to draw a Celtic knot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqwevEiXGqw
The account, “Circle Line Art School,” includes a wide variety of drawing tutorials that students may be interested in trying out.
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CHAPTER 7:
Write a Haiku: A haiku is a short poem that first emerged in Japan in the seventeenth century. Most often, it is unrhymed and consists of seventeen syllables arranged in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Haikus are a fun and versatile poetic form, and their short, simple structure provides a helpful format to follow. Here is a student’s example of a haiku about Fowling in the Marshes, the Egyptian tomb painting featured in chapter 1:
Standing in the marsh
Scaly fish below his boat
A cat caught three birds
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CHAPTER 10:
Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi created his famous Four Seasons in around 1718-1720 as a musical representation of the four seasons of the year. The entire piece is roughly 42 minutes long. We suggest you have students listen to the first movement of each season, which takes about seventeen minutes. Links to those audio selections are included below. You may want to have students sketch Rubens' painting in their notebooks while they listen.
If you'd like to keep the comparison very simple, you can choose only one of the four seasons to compare to Rubens' Saint George and the Dragon— we would recommend either Summer or Winter. Ask the students, how would you describe this musical piece? How is it similar to Rubens' painting?
Spring I (3:15 mins)
https://open.spotify.com/track/3RUBMVfbweULyfoVMXTOLV?si=cWPrR8z7SFqkpiBnj96gKw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4eEJooUkzenp7lZTtfbIP7
Summer I (5 mins)
https://open.spotify.com/track/3RUBMVfbweULyfoVMXTOLV?si=cWPrR8z7SFqkpiBnj96gKw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4eEJooUkzenp7lZTtfbIP7
Autumn I (5 mins)
https://open.spotify.com/track/28QJotQoD4XH5rV3vp5rsq?si=VbuVPbyUTGi6Eqj3jsdmrw
Winter I (3:30 mins)
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ON4FYmS4Zch1NV0lhv9hX?si=ymNmevjSQ6yZ0z82nk8EVg
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CHAPTER 18:
Read the poem below (twice) and compare it to Tanner's Annunciation painting. Ask the discussion questions noted on page 115 of Lumen: Do you think the artist and the poet view Mary the same way? Why or why not?
"Feast of the Annunciation"
by Christina Georgina Rossetti (English; 1840-1894)
Whereto shall we liken this Blessed Mary Virgin,
Fruitful shoot from Jesse's root graciously emerging?
Lily we might call her, but Christ alone is white;
Rose delicious, but that Jesus is the one Delight;
Flower of women, but her Firstborn is mankind's one flower:
He the Sun lights up all moons thro' their radiant hour.
"Blessed among women, highly favoured," thus
Glorious Gabriel hailed her, teaching words to us:
Whom devoutly copying we too cry " All hail! "
Echoing on the music of glorious Gabriel.
(Also found here: https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/feast-annunciation)