Lifestyles in the Renaissance

Celebrating the Human

Medieval vs. Renaissance Art With the people around you,

compare and contrast the following Medieval and Renaissance paintings.

What are the similarities and differences?

What do you notice about them?

Matthew From the Lindisfarne Gospels (7th century \ 8th century)

St Francis Altarpiece – Berlinghieri (1235)

Lamentation - Giotto di Bondone (ca. 1305)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints - Taddeo Gaddi (ca. 1340)

Lorenzo the Magnificent - Vasari

Portrait of a Man – Titian (ca. 1510-20)

The Dutch Proverbs – Pieter Bruegel (1559)

The Tower of Babel – Pieter Bruegel (1563)

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus – Pieter Bruegel (1558)

School of Athens – Raphael (1509-11)

Medieval Woodcut

Michelangelo, The Deluge.