Welcome to the Renaissance!

The Renaissance was a time of sweeping changes in art, literature and science that swept across southern Europe for 200 years. To create a Renaissance Museum, the 7th graders focused on their favorite parts of the Renaissance and brought them to life. The Renaissance Museum opened to the public and gave the Lower School children a chance to experience some of these wonders.

The 7th graders explored the new technologies in sailing, the artistic endeavors of Titian and Michelangelo, and the inventions and artwork of Leonardo Da Vinci. We even visited the later Renaissance in England to explore the playwright Christopher Marlowe. As the Lower School classes came through, they enjoyed the stories of Marlowe, learned about perspective in art, walked under the paintings of the Sistine Chapel, saw the ship design for a caravel, and found out how Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man could still teach us things about our own measurements.