1. Renaissance Art

2. Essential Question How is art an expression of the events and culture of a society?

3. 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?

4. Raphael’s School of Athens

5. El Greco’s View of Toledo

6. Botticelli’s Birth of Venus

7. Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel The Last Judgment

8. Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa

9. Sculptures Group Instructions: 1.Study each sculpture. 2.Complete the chart. 3.Discuss your likes, dislikes and interpretations with your group.

10. Michelangelo’s Pieta

11. Brunelleschi’s Crucifix

12. Andrea del Verrocchio’s David

13. Donatello’s Statue of Mary Magdalene

14. Benvenuto Cellini’s Perseus with the Head of Medusa

15. 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.

16. Raphael’s St. Peter’s Cathedral

17. Brunelleschi’s Church of Sans Lorenzo

18. 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.

19. Essential Question How is art an expression of the events and culture of a society?

20. Chalk Talk Gender roles in Afghanistan Women are thought to be inferior unfair We need to help them It’s not our job We have a responsibility to help We are not the world’s police! If it’s not our job then whose job is it?

21. 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?