The document compares art from the Middle Ages and Renaissance periods. Art in the Middle Ages featured flat, hierarchical compositions and religious themes, while Renaissance art used techniques like perspective to make figures seem more realistic and three-dimensional. Renaissance art also depicted a wider range of subjects like daily life, used color blending more frequently, and was influenced by Italian and Northern styles.

1. Art of the Middle Ages vs Art of the Renaissance

2. Art of the Middle Ages

4. Comparing Middle Ages and Renaissance Art Flat Hierarchical Structure – Important people made to seem larger Religious themes Simple Less choice of / blending of colors

6. Italian Renaissance Art

7. Notice the use of perspective

8. Italian Renaissance Art Use of perspective (3D) Still often religious, but w/ characters seeming more human Realistic More choice of / blending of colors

9. Pieter Bruegel

10. Northern Renaissance Art Use of perspective (3D) More about daily life. Less about religion Realistic More choice of / blending of colors

11. Some Renaissance Masters

12. Leonardo da Vinci

17. Note the use of color, texture and shading

18. Brunelleschi's Dome on the Florence Cathedral

19. Quick Quiz For each of the paintings below, write down whether it is from the Middle Ages or the Renaissance

31. A Portrait of Sir Thomas More, By Hans Holbein