Renaissance Art
Essential Question
How is art an expression of the events and
culture of a society?
Painting and Frescos
Group Instructions:
1. Study each painting.
2. List characteristics: color, subject matter,
background, perspective…
3. Underline second round, circle third round, *
fourth round, ! fifth round
4. Discuss each painting: What do you like?
Dislike? Anything confusing? Theme?
Painter’s message?
Raphael’s School of Athens
El Greco’s
View of
Toledo
Botticelli’s Birth of Venus
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel
The Last
Judgment
Leonardo
Da Vinci’s
Mona Lisa
Sculptures
Group Instructions:
1. Study each sculpture.
2. Complete the chart.
3. Discuss your likes, dislikes and interpretations
with your group.
Michelangelo’s Pieta
Brunelleschi’s
Crucifix
Andrea del
Verrocchio’s
David
Donatello’s
Statue of
Mary Magdalene
Benvenuto Cellini’s Perseus with the
Head of Medusa
Architecture
Group Instructions:
1. Study each example of architecture.
2. Take notes on your observations.
3. We aren’t filling in the third piece.
4. Discuss what you are recording. Be sure that
all group members have information written.
Raphael’s
St. Peter’s Cathedral
Brunelleschi’s Church of Sans Lorenzo
Literature
Group Instructions:
- Academic: answer questions on your sheet
- Honors: find the main idea and evidence to support
from each excerpt.
1. Read the excerpt from Utopia. Discuss your responses
to the questions. Be sure to highlight!
2. Read the excerpt from The Praise of Folly. Discuss.
3. Read the excerpt from The Book of Courtier. Discuss.
4. Read the excerpt from Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
Discuss.
Essential Question
How is art an expression of the events and
culture of a society?
Chalk Talk
unfair
Women are thought to be
inferior
It’s not our job
We have a
responsibility
to help
We need to help them
Gender roles in
Afghanistan
We are not the
world’s police!
If it’s not our job
then whose job is
it?
Questions
Sheet #1 – Which painting best exemplifies cultural
changes from the Middle Ages to the
Renaissance? Identify a specific work as an
example.
Back of sheet #1 - What element of these
sculptures was most impressive? Identify a
specific work as an example.
Sheet #2 – Which architectural style from the
Renaissance continues, or do you think should
continue, to impact building design today?
Back of sheet #2 - Which literature excerpt had the
most significance for you and why?