Intro Renaissance

• History
• Secondary Education
• Age 13

• Describe the two pictures - what do they have in common?
• Describe the differences concerning facial expressions and clothes.

• Compare the two backgrounds.
• Compare the use of colours and try to explain them.

Madonna and Child (possibly 1230s)

Berlinghiero (Italian, Lucca, active by 1228–died by 1236)

Ambrogio Borgognone c. 1470s – 1523/1524) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period active in and near Milan.

Assigment

Compare the two paintings and fill in the chart you'll find on Iserv on the next slide. 

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Middle Ages vs. Renaissance

Read the text (link on the next slide) and then we'll do a drag and drop exercise. 

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Middle Ages

Renaissance

God was most important.

People tried to please God at all costs.

People readily believed and accepted everything they were told by the Church.

Man was at the centre of interest

People explained events only as God's work

Scholars and scientists took a great interest in and looked more closely at  men and nature 

People believed in witchcraft, magic, ghosts, superstition and dragons.

People wanted to please themselves and enjoy a comfortable life on earth. 

People considered diseases such as the plague as God’s punishment for their ill-led lives.

Struck by diseases as the plague, people wanted to find how to treat and to cure them  scientifically 

People questioned the teachings and statements of the church and refused to believe everything they were told

People wanted to find scientific reasons in order to be able to explain events