1. Compare Renaissance and Middle Age
Defining An Era
Compare Renaissance and Middle Age
art and architecture
Which era demonstrates more Greek and Roman techniques or motifs?
(arches, columns, etc…)
Which era demonstrates more artistic beauty?
(which is more realistic or shows the talent of the artist better?)
Which era demonstrates more emphasis on the individual and expression?
Which era is more secular in its themes and content?

2. Middle Age Art
Adam and Eve Reproached [punished] by the Lord from the Bronze Doors of Bishop Bernward for St. Michael’s

3. Middle Age Art
Master Honore. David and Goliath, from the Prayer Book of Philip the Fair

4. Middle Age Art
an illustration from the Book of Kells written by Celtic Christian monks during the 8th century. This picture depicts Saint Columba.

5. Middle Age architecture
the medieval Gravensteen castle, in Flanders, built in 1180

6. Middle Age architecture
Hever Castle, Kent, UK, c

7. Middle Age architecture
Cathedral of Milan, Italy, c

8. Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man shows clearly the effect writers of Greece and Rome had on Renaissance thinkers. Based on the specifications in Vitruvius's (a Roman Author) De architectura around 1500 years before, Da Vinci tried to draw the perfectly proportioned man

9. Renaissance Art View of a Skull, c. 1489
Leondardo di Vinci. Embryo in the Womb. c

10. Renaissance art
 Holy Trinity and it was painted by Masaccio between 1425 – Masaccio was an early renaissance painter

11. Renaissance art
Self-Portrait at 26. 1498. 
Albrecht Durer

12. Renaissance architecture
Brunelleschi, Santa Maria del Fiore (Duomo), Florence. c

13. Renaissance architecture
Bramante, "Tempietto" (San Pietro in Montorio) in Rome. c.1508
Compare to: Temple of Venus, Rome. c. 200 AD.

14. Renaissance architecture
Andrea Palladio. Villa Rotonda, Vincenza. c