RE using Art- The Abbey beyond the Oakwood and belief in resurrection.

This lesson uses the painting by Caspar David Friedrich of the ‘Abbey in the Oakwood’ as a way to understand the Christian belief in resurrection. It also uses the commentary of Simon Schama in the ‘The Romantics and us’ which relays the background and symbolism of the painting.

The lesson looks at the emotion of the painting and how it first appears to be a the melancholic image of an artist who was expressing some unhappiness. It then looks deeper at the context of the artist’s life and begins to look more deeply at what the painting could really be pointing to.

Having unravelled the key elements of symbolism in the painting, the lesson moves to tasks related to knowledge, understanding and evaluation. These all relate to the Christian belief in resurrection.

Please contact me if you have any questions- Jennings.a@woodhousegrove.co.uk

Here are some of the slides…

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