AP Euro due Mon 9/29

1. Read excerpts from Lives of Great Artists by Georgio Vasari. If you come across a word that you do not know, look it up.

2. In an essay form:

a. Who did Donato bestow his farm to? Why? What does this tell you about his personality and how does it relate to modern ideas about fairness in society?

b. Elaborate on the following quote as it relates to Leon Batista Alberti as well as other artists, musicians, or craftsmen of any kind:
“Who is ignorant that a man must be able, in whatever work he is seeking to carry out, to reject or adopt everything for himself after mature consideration, without having to depend on help from another man’s theory? For theory, when separated from practice, is generally of very little use; but when the two chance to come together, there is nothing that is more helpful to our life, both because art becomes much richer and more perfect by the aid of science, and because the counsels and the writings of learned craftsmen have in themselves greater efficacy and greater credit than the words or works of those who know nothing but mere practice, whether they do it well or ill.”