Intro Renaissance

  • 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.
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HistorySecondary EducationAge 13

This lesson contains 7 slides, with interactive quiz and text slides.

time-iconLesson duration is: 90 min

Items in this lesson

  • 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.

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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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Slide 3 - Link

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Slide 4 - 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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Slide 6 - Link

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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

Slide 7 - Drag question

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