Renaissance Artists, their products, and what was gained
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Subject Area: Visual Art | Grade Level: 12
Lesson Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
Keywords/Tags: Renaissance, Artists, Artwork, Technique, Visual Art, Art, Paintings, Drawings
Lesson Description: Through this lesson, one will learn facts about major key artists in the renaissance, what artwork was icebreakers in the art period, and what techniques or things were learned or gained from this art period.

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Video : Renaissance an Overview by Goodbye-Art Academy
Instructions: Please watch the following video as many times as needed before starting to go through other lesson pages. Understanding the content of the video is very important since the lesson activities will be all about this video content.
Description: This video works to describe what the main definition of the Renaissance is, hits on the main major techniques that made/developed in the period, what important artworks were made and show the new techniques, and works to talk about key artists/architects that impacted the art period.
Video : Exploring the Renaissance
Instructions: Please watch the following video as many times as needed before starting to go through other lesson pages. Understanding the content of the video is very important since the lesson activities will be all about this video content.
Description: An animated short video that helps describe the art forms and pieces and mediums within the time periods of the Renaissance.
Resources : Renaissance Art
Instructions: Please see additional external resources below. Feel free visit each link to learn more about this lesson.
Renaissance Art

Renaissance Art and Architecture

Italian Renaissance

High Renaissance

Description: These resources help give great description on the origins, techniques, expansion, and key time slots for the art period.
Quiz : Renaissance Through Art
Instructions: Please complete this quiz by choosing the correct answer for each question. You can take this quiz as many times needed.
Question #1
The time frame for the Renassiance period in Europe was between the 14th and 16th century.
Question #2

Which of these artists is one of the major impactors in Renassiance art?

Question #3

Who made The Birth of Venus painting?

Question #4
Rapheal is responsible for giving us paintings like The Last Supper, Mona Lisa, and the Vitruvian Man.
Question #5
Artists were typically given an extra addition to teir names like "da Vinci" to indicate where they worked in Europe.
Description: This quiz is to test you on what you have learn over the course of this chapter on techniques, artists, and artworks that were made and are important for this art period.
Reading : Renaissance and Mannerism in Cinquecento Italy
Instructions: Please read the following article as many times as needed (aloud and silent) before starting to go through the rest of the lesson pages. Understanding the content of this passage is very important since the following lesson activities will be all about this content. Feel free to print the article if needed.

  

Description: This reading works to describe the major artists and artworks and impacts in Italy impacted or worked as impactors because of the Renaissance.
Forum : Artist techniques in Modern Art
Instructions: This discussion forum will have questions for students to respond. Read the posted questions, and respond to each. Students are responsible for posting one initial and and two peer responses for each topic.
Artistic Connections
Now it is time to look at art in the more modern setting. What artists or genre of art do you tend to look art the most? Now looking at their techniques and compositions, do you see any connections between them with the compositions and techniques discussed in this chapter. Compare and Contrast each art period and see how connected they are to each other. Was it easy to find the connections? How much of the art that you look at more now is impacted by the art from this period?
Reading : Renaissance and Mannerism in Cinquecento Italy and The Renaissance in Quattrocento Italy
Instructions: Please read the following article as many times as needed (aloud and silent) before starting to go through the rest of the lesson pages. Understanding the content of this passage is very important since the following lesson activities will be all about this content. Feel free to print the article if needed.

Read through, write notes, and be prepared to disscuss chapters:

 Chapter 21/pp. 580-621

Chapter 22/pp. 622-673

Description: Chapters are found in the Gardner’s Art Through the Ages A Global History, Volume II by Fred S. Kleiner textbook provided to the students. Both chapters provide an in-depth description of the impacts on Italy and Europe done by the artists, their artwork, and the Renaissance art period.