1. Exploration & Exchange

2. Entry Task
5th: You have 10 minutes to finish yesterday’s reading & questions
Readings are on the back table

3. Humanism
Idea which focused on the importance of individuals and human society

4. Focus of Renaissance: Humanism
Individual worth
Importance of human achievement
Importance of the human experience
Not anti-religious, but less based on religion as a philosophy

5. Humanism’s Effects on the Renaissance
Art
Politics
Knowledge

6. Humanism’s Effects on Art
Led to:
Realism
Focus on the human form
Emotion
Unique representations of human faces

7. Humanism’s Effects on Politics
Emphasized independent states instead of a community of Christendom
Led to progress – change seen as driven by people, not God

8. Humanism’s Effects on Knowledge
Led to increased education
More reading and literature
Scientific Advancements

9. Inquiry
Today you will examine the art of the Middle Ages & Renaissance
A note on art
Your task:
Determine the differences between art of the Middle Ages and art of the Renaissance

10. Partner Work Expectations & Task
You are expected to be:
Discussing the art respectfully
Asking your partner questions
Sharing your opinion
Ensuring you and your partner have similar answers
Your task:
Determine the differences between art of the Middle Ages and art of the Renaissance

11. Create a chart in your notebook
Medieval Art
Renaissance Art

12. Medieval Art Religious subjects
Important figures larger than those around them
Lack of realism
Faces show no emotion
Scenes composed, not real

13. Renaissance Art In Renaissance Art we begin to see: Perspective
Return to nude figures, naturalism
Realism (proportion & balance)
Non-religious subjects

14. Effects of the Renaissance
Changes in the arts reflect growth of humanism
Peoples’ view of life changed
Advances in printing made more information available – rise in literacy
People begin to question authority
Religion
Political structures

15. Textbook Notes packet
Chapter 14, sections 1, 3, & 4
Due on MONDAY