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CLSM · World History · Progress Check 2
Renaissance Patronage
Read the situation. Connect the ideas. Show how you know.
Name ___________________________Class __________ Date __________
01 Recall, then make a connection.
Humanism
Commission
Civic identity
Explain how humanism could influence a commission. How might the resulting work express civic identity without proving that every resident shared the patron’s message?
Read the situation.
The Renaissance involved renewed engagement with Greco-Roman texts and forms alongside continuing religious traditions. Humanist study emphasized language, rhetoric, history, and moral questions. It did not require every scholar to reject religion. Cities, courts, churches, and wealthy households supported different kinds of cultural production.
02 Organize the information.
Three commissions
Fictional briefs: a council wants a city-history painting; a church wants an altarpiece; a ruler wants a dynastic portrait.
Sort each request by its stated institutional purpose.
A. Civic memoryB. Religious devotionC. Dynastic authority
Example
Category letter
1. Celebrate an episode from the city’s past.
2. Provide an image for a place of worship.
3. Present a ruling family’s continuity.
4. Display a city’s public benefactors.
5. Illustrate a devotional narrative for an altar.
Explain one placement using a detail from the example.
CLSM · World History · Progress Check 2
What does the evidence show?
Renaissance Patronage
03 Follow the evidence.
Follow the patron’s influence
Claim: “The patron helped shape this fictional project’s subject and intended audience.”
Select all evidence that supports it.
A contract specifies the civic event to depict.
Correspondence names the public hall where the work will hang.
A later visitor says the color is beautiful.
A modern catalogue gives the frame’s weight.
Name the useful records and explain how they answer the claim.
04 Apply the idea.
The exhibit conclusion
The display includes a religious painting, a classical text edition, and a civic commission.
Which conclusion fits?
Renaissance production joined several intellectual and institutional interests; it was not a complete disappearance of religion.
Every work served the same audience and purpose.
Money alone explains every artistic decision.
Choose a conclusion and explain why it fits the situation.
05 Carry the idea forward.
Write a commission-review paragraph explaining how patronage and humanist study could interact. Include one concrete institutional purpose and one limit of interpreting a work through its patron alone.