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CLSM · World History · Progress Check 2
Renaissance Art & Print
Read the situation. Connect the ideas. Show how you know.
Name ___________________________Class __________ Date __________
01 Recall, then make a connection.
Linear perspective
Classical reference
Print
Distinguish linear perspective, classical reference, and print. Explain how one work could combine these features, and why technique alone does not identify its religious or civic purpose.
Read the situation.
Renaissance art and learning included varied interests in classical antiquity, observation, human experience, and methods for representing space. These features did not appear identically in every work or region. Religious subjects remained prominent. Identifying one feature is the beginning of interpretation, not proof that every characteristic belongs to every object.
02 Organize the information.
The print run
A fictional workshop makes 12 impressions from each of 4 prepared blocks. Assume each block produces its stated quantity without spoilage.
How many impressions are produced?
Answer: __________________ impressions
Show the calculation, then explain what the result tells you in this model.
CLSM · World History · Progress Check 2
What does the evidence show?
Renaissance Art & Print
03 Follow the evidence.
Did an image circulate?
A historian claims a printed design influenced workshops in more than one region.
Select all evidence relevant to that claim.
A dated print is documented in a workshop in another region.
A later work adapts a distinctive feature from that print, with supporting provenance.
A modern viewer says both works are attractive.
The two works have the same frame size.
Name the useful records and explain how they answer the claim.
04 Apply the idea.
Repair the checklist
A label reads: “Every Renaissance work was secular, realistic, and identical in style.”
Choose the best revision.
Renaissance works varied; particular examples show classical references, observation, or new methods alongside continuing religious subjects.
No Renaissance artists studied older works.
One feature is enough to explain an entire culture.
Choose a conclusion and explain why it fits the situation.
05 Carry the idea forward.
Write a label for the fictional altarpiece using two described features. Explain how a print could spread a technique and identify evidence needed to establish actual influence.