Pupils exchange and explore partners heritage

1. Cultural Heritage of Project Partners
Cultural Heritage is an expression of the ways of living developed by a community
and passed on from generation to generation, including customs, practices, places,
objects, artistic expressions and values. Cultural Heritage is often expressed as
either Intangible or Tangible Cultural Heritage (ICOMOS, 2002).
As part of human activity Cultural Heritage produces tangible representations of
the value systems, beliefs, traditions and lifestyles. As an essential part of
culture as a whole, Cultural Heritage, contains these visible and tangible traces
form antiquity to the recent past.
Cultural Heritage is a wide concept. We prefer to concentrate on the similarities
between the various heritage sectors, instead of on their differences.
Cultural Heritage types
Cultural Heritage can be distinguished in:
 Built Environment (Buildings, Townscapes, Archaeological remains)
 Natural Environment (Rural landscapes, Coasts and shorelines, Agricultural
heritage)
 Artefacts (Books & Documents, Objects, Pictures)
Driving force behind all definitions of Cultural Heritage is:
it is a human creation intended to inform (John Feather, 2006).

2. Tangible & Intangible Heritage
Having at one time referred exclusively to the monumental remains of
cultures, cultural heritage as a concept has gradually come to include
new categories. Today, we find that heritage is not only manifested
through tangible forms such as artefacts, buildings or landscapes but
also through intangible forms. Intangible heritage includes voices,
values, traditions, oral history. Popularly this is perceived through
cuisine, clothing, forms of shelter, traditional skills and technologies,
religious ceremonies, performing arts, storytelling. Today, we consider
the tangible heritage inextricably bound up with the intangible
heritage. In conservation projects we aim to preserve both the tangible
as well as the intangible heritage.

3. Belgium
Adolph Sax was born in Belgium. He was the musical instruments maker
and the inventor of saxophone. Belgium has a very active jazz scene.
Gilles Binochois is one of the three most famous composers in the
15th century.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tREK3qOoAx8

4. ITALY
Festivals

6. ART
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or more commonly known by his
first name Michelangelo (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564) was an Italian
sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic
of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western
art. Considered by some the greatest living artist during his lifetime, he has since
been described as one of the greatest artists of all time. Despite making few forays
beyond the arts, his artistic versatility was of such a high order that he is often
considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with
his rival, the fellow Florentine and client of the Medici, Leonardo da Vinci.
A number of Michelangelo's works of painting, sculpture and architecture rank
among the most famous in existence. His output in these fields was prodigious;
given the sheer volume of surviving correspondence, sketches and reminiscences,
he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century. He sculpted two of his best-
known works, the Pietà and David, before the age of thirty. Despite holding a low
opinion of painting, he also created two of the most influential frescoes in the
history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
in Rome, and The Last Judgment on its altar wall.

7. Sistine chapel
Michelangelo is one of the most celebrated artists in history and
his works still exert unparalleled influence on the development of
art even after more than 450 years of his death. The Italian
sculptor, painter, poet and architect Michelangelo di Lodovico
Buonarroti Simoni is most commonly known just by his first name, is
perhaps the greatest artist in history and some of his most noted
works include the fresco on the Sistine Chapel and his evocative
sculptures Pietà, Moses and David.

8. While the list of his works will seem endless if we go on to mention his
each and every work, we’ve here complied some of the best works by
this most celebrated High Renaissance artist.
La Pietà
La Pietà is a Carrara marble statue depicting Virgin Mary holding and
grieving over the body of Jesus after his crucifixion. La Pietà means
‘The Pity’ in English. Michelangelo started working on the statue in 1498
and completed in 1499. He was just 24 years old when he completed it.
The statue was originally made for the funeral tomb of French Cardinal
Jean de Bilhères but was later moved to St. Peter’s Basilica in the 18th
century. Pietà is the only work that was ever signed by Michelangelo.

9. Creation of Adam, Michelangelo
Last Supper , Michelangelo

10. Italian Folklore -
Tarantella, traditional Italian dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJaZfKJZhQM

11. Some more paintings we adimired…
Girl with a peral earing., Johaness Vermeer
Paul Cezane, Card players

12. GREEK ART

13. ACROPOLIS
The Acropolis of Athens is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the
city of Athens and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great
architectural and historic significance, the most famous being the Parthenon. The
word acropolis is from the Greek words ἄκρον (akron, "highest point, extremity")
and πόλις (polis, "city").[1]
Although the term acropolis is generic and there are many
other acropoleis in Greece, the significance of the Acropolis of Athens is such that it
is commonly known as "The Acropolis" without qualification. During ancient times it
was known also more properly as Cecropia, after the legendary serpent-
man, Cecrops, the first Athenian king.
While there is evidence that the hill was inhabited as far back as the fourth
millennium BC, it was Pericles (c. 495 – 429 BC) in the fifth century BC who
coordinated the construction of the site's most important present remains including
the Parthenon, the Propylaia, the Erechtheion and the Temple of Athena
Nike.[2][3]
The Parthenon and the other buildings were damaged seriously during the
1687 siege by the Venetians during the Morean War when gunpowder being stored
in the Parthenon was hit by a cannonball and exploded

14. Greek salad - delicious cuisine…
Tzatziki salad

15. Moussaka
POLAND
Frederic Chopin , Polish composer of 19th
century
Composed 36 waltzes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64B-gW9FtY8

16. Cut-outs – Poland folk art

17. Polish folk costumes

18. We enjoyed recreating European pieces of art: