Renaissance Art

Study the paintings below. For each painting, write 1-2 complete sentences summarizing the main idea of the painting’s relationship to Renaissance life and the philosophy of humanism.

1. Raphael: School of Athens


2. Quentin Massys: A Money-Changer and his Wife


3. Leonardo da Vinci: Proportional Study of a Man in the Manner of Vitruvius


4. Albrecht Durer: Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam


5. Pieter Bruegel: Summer (1568)