Other than the fact of two different time periods, there are many cultural specimens of continuity and change from the Medieval Ages to the Renaissance Era. Sculpture of the Virgin Mary was in a sense continuous throughout the Medieval to Renaissance ages because she still showed as much of significance, whereas, Medieval and Renaissance art show drastic dissimilarities in their style and position. The Virgin Mary holds a prominent place in Medieval times and Renaissance times because she is the mother of Jesus and the mother of the church. In Medieval times, people of the Chartres Cathedral built on the west façade a sculpture called Scenes from the Life of the Virgin Mary. In the sculpture Mary is sitting on the seat of wisdom and holding Jesus as a baby on her lap. It shows different scenes of baby Jesus’s life and him and Mary are placed at the very top of the sculpture. In relation to this sculpture, the Renaissance figure of The Rottgen Pieta also shows Mary sitting on a chair and holding Jesus on her lap, though this is a scene of Jesus’s later life as a man and his human nature of suffering and Mary’s detail is shown more expressive than that of Renaissance. Although there are some slight transformations, the Virgin Mary is still sitting on a chair holding her sun and expressed in significance to both the Medieval and Renaissance ages. On the other hand, art showed an immense change. An example would be the painting the painting of the Madonna Enthroned done by Cimabue in Medieval age compared to the same painting done by Giotto in the Renaissance. Although they are the same painting, there style and positioning is very different. In Cimabue’s style, all of the faces look similar, whereas in Giotto’s faces are diverse. Giotto shows the new Renaissance style because the faces are more hidden and show patterns, their eyes are narrow, they show a greater