Unit Title: Renaissance
Course: Exploring Art Through the Ages
Unit Length: 4 weeks
Date Created:
State Standards / Common Core Standards
25.A.4 Analyze and evaluate the effective use of elements, principles and expressive qualities in a composition/performance in dance, drama,
music and visual arts.
25.A.5 Analyze and evaluate student and professional works for how aesthetic qualities are used to convey intent, expressive ideas and/or
meaning.
25.B.4 Analyze and evaluate similar and distinctive characteristics of works in two or more of the arts that share the same historical period or
societal context.
26.A.5 Common for all four arts: Analyze and evaluate how the choice of media, tools, technologies and processes support and influence the
communication of ideas
26.A.4e Visual Arts: Analyze and evaluate how tools/technologies and processes combine to convey meaning.
26.B.4d Visual Arts: Demonstrate knowledge and skills that communicate clear and focused ideas based on planning, research and problem
solving.
RST.9-10.4 Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or
technical context relevant to grades 9-10 texts and topics.
Unit Overview
Unit Components
Vocabulary
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Chiaroscuro
Renaissance Man
Sfumato
Perspective
Concepts
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Low Renaissance
High Renaissance
Mannerism
Baroque
Skills
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Critique works of art
Distinguish among
works from a variety of
time periods
Media
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Pencil
Paper
Learner/Performance Objectives: The student will . . .
Assessments/Evidence
Yes/No
Formative Assessments
1. Understand and explain the historical significance of the Renaissance and artwork
created during this time period.
2. Identify Brunelleschi’s achievements in architecture and explain their importance.
3. Explain the drawing technique of perspective and the significance of its
development.
4. Identify and describe Leonardo da Vinci’s style of painting.
5. Identify and describe Michelangelo’s style of sculpture and painting.
6. Compare and contrast works of art created by Leonardo, Michelangelo, and
Raphael.
7. Analyze characteristics of Mannerism.
8. Identify architectural elements in St. Peter’s Basilica and explain their significance.
9. Identify and describe Bernini’s style of sculpture.
10. Analyze characteristic of Versailles and their influence on future art and
architecture.
11. Analyze various reasons for the creation of artwork during the Renaissance.
Unit:
Resources/Materials
Janson’s History of Art
PowerPoint presentations
Various handouts
National Geographic Video on life of Michelangelo
Daily discussion with Socratic
questioning
Paragraphs critiquing various works of
art
Summative Assessments
Paper comparing and contrasting works
from two Renaissance artists
Multiple choice unit test