63 Key Characteristics of Art: Renaissance through Baroque

Identify and describe key characteristics and defining events that shaped art from the Renaissance through Baroque periods

Learning Activities

The learning activities for this section include:

• Reading: Florence in the Trecento (1300s)
• Reading: Florence in the Early Renaissance
• Video: Linear Perspective: Brunelleschi’s Experiment
• Video: How One-Point Linear Perspective Works
• Video: Rogier van der Weyden, Deposition, c. 1435
• Reading: Toward the High Renaissance
• Reading: 1500–1600 End of the Renaissance and the Reformation
• Reading: The Baroque: Art, Politics, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Europe

Take time to review and reflect on each of these activities in order to improve your performance on the assessment for this section.