renaissance

1. Renaissance
Web quest

2. Watch these two videos as an introduction
before class
These two videos will give you back ground
about the Renaissance
http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/1400
-1500-Renaissance-in-Italy-and-the-
North.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vufba
_ZcoR0

3. http://www.slideshare.net/gsill/renaissance-vs-medieval-art-lesson-ppt
First you will familiarize yourself
with the architecture from the
Middle Ages
Look at the first 50 slides from this
slide show:

4. Architecture: Google the following churches and
take some notes
Westminster Abbey
Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
Basilica of St. Denis

5. Rome
Look at some of the architecture that characterized the
Renaissance: Click on the following link and explore the Vatican
St. Peter’s Basilica
http://www.vatican.va/various/basiliche/san_pietro/vr_tour/index
-en.html
http://www.aviewoncities.com/rome/sanpietro.htm
http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html

6. Florence
“Of all Italian cities, Florence was the
cradle of the Renaissance...Florence was a
city of violent contrasts, a city of the light
and the dark. “J.H. Plumb

7. Leonardo da Vinci:
✫Watch the video and take notes on the video
http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/leonardo-notebooks.html
✫ Click on the following link and observe and take notes on various pieces of his
work; Mona Lisa, Ginevra de’ Benci, Lady with an ermine, The Last Supper,
and The Virgin of the Rocks.
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/vinci/
✫On the same web page click the hyperlink from sketches to paintings on this web page and take notes on
the following: Vitruvian Man, Study of proportions,
✫Now click on the following link and look at the Leonardo the scientist, inventor, and artist
http://legacy.mos.org/leonardo/bio.html

8. Michelangelo
✫Click on the following link and take notes on Michelangelo’s background
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/michelangelo/
✫Now click on the next link and Read the biography and click on Pieta, David , and
Sistine Chapel Ceiling and take notes on the videos
http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/michelangelo.html

9. ✫Now you will view a virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel: Use your
mouse to zoom in and navigate the room
http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html
✫Now look at the next web page and click on Last judgement.
Summarize the scandal
http://www.michelangelo.com/buon/bio-index2.html

10. Bruneslleschi’s Dome
✫Click on the following link and watch the video
http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/brunelleschis-
dome.html

11. Donatello
✫Click on the following link and watch a video about David
http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/Donatello.html
✫Now click on the next link to learn about Donatello’s Madonna
http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/donatello-madonna-of-the-
clouds.html

12. Pertrarch
✫Click on the following link to read a biography of the poet,
philosopher Petrarch
http://www.biography.com/people/petrarch-
9438891#awesm=~oCLjsnourFnjm4

13. Machiavelli
✫Click on the following link to read and summarize about this diplomat
and writer
http://www.biography.com/people/niccol%C3%B2-machiavelli-
9392446#authoring-the-prince&awesm=~oCLlB4GcB7ZZrQ
✫Now read excerpts from the Prince and summarize
http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/165mach.html

14. Desiderius Erasmus: Dutch Renaissance humanist
✫Read about Erasmus the scholar and take notes
http://www.biography.com/people/erasmus-21291705#later-
life&awesm=~oCLhey1zTOPuTm

15. England
✫Click on the following link to learn about William Shakespeare the poet and playwright
http://www.biography.com/people/william-shakespeare-
9480323#awesm=~oCLgNfeyLyO18e

16. https://artscolumbia.org/art-history/post-
classical/renaissance/southern-italian-renaissance-vs-
northern-20713/
Now read the following article and summarize
the difference between the Northern and
Southern Renaissance