Homework Week of January 30 - February 5

Assignment #57 - Due: Monday, January 31

High Renaissance – 16^th c. Italy

Pages 1 to 3

Complete the slide notes.

For each piece of art, fully identify with title, artist, date, and time period. Include at least 3 facts about each piece. Think about its use as propaganda, funerary art, public art, religious art, who commissioned it, why was it made, and what purpose did it serve?

Assignment #58 - Due Tuesday, February 1

2007 Short Essay Exam – 10 minutes

See Attached Sheet on Michelangelo.

Assignment #59 - Due Wednesday, February 2

High Renaissance – 16^th c. Italy

Pages 4 to 6

Complete the slide notes.

For each piece of art, fully identify with title, artist, date, and time period. Include at least 3 facts about each piece. Think about its use as propaganda, funerary art, public art, religious art, who commissioned it, why was it made, and what purpose did it serve?

Sketchbook Timeline Assignment

Due: Thursday, Feb. 3

Time Line of High Renaissance Work and Mannerism

(to be completed in your sketchbook)

Using the following categories, choose three works of art from each category. First, fully identify the category, and the major historical events that shaped the artwork during that time. How did the culture influence the art? Fully identify each piece of art you selected, and describe the distinguishing characteristics of each piece. In total, you will have discussed 12 specific pieces of artwork, and described 4 different time periods for a total of 16 points.

1.)High Renaissance (22-1 to 22-25)

2.)Architecture (any part of the chapter)

3.)Venetian Art (22-31 – 21-39)

4.) Mannerism (22-42 to 22-49)

Sketchbook Assignment: Propaganda

Due: Friday, February 4

2010 Long Answer Essay

Please use a work from chapter 22

Throughout history, art has been used as propaganda to shape public opinion. Propaganda takes many forms, such as architecture, paintings, and print media, and is used to promote religious, political, and social ideologies.

Select and fully identify two works, in any medium, that were used to shape public opinion. One of your examples must date before 1900 C.E. (chapter 22), and one must date after 1900 C.E. Citing specific elements in each work, analyze how each work conveyed its propagandistic message to its intended audience. (30 minutes)

Look through chapters 33 and 34 – Do NOT use Guernica!

 

Homework Assignments - January 23-29

From Monday to Wednesday, we are finishing chapter 21. On Thursday, we are starting High Renaissance, with chapter 22.

Assignment #52 - Due Monday, January 24

2006 Long Essay Exam

Throughout history, works of art have included symbolic or allegorical images. 

Select and fully identify two works of art that include symbolic or allegorical images.  Your choices must be from different art historical periods.  Discuss how each work uses symbols to convey meaning. 

Please use one work from Chapter 21, the other, is your choice!

Assignment #53 - Due Tuesday, January 25

2005 Short Essay Exam – 10 minutes

Name the period of the building on the right. How and why did Alberti adept elements of the work on the left?

Use image Arch of Constantine (10-76)  for the left.

Use image Alberti’s west façade of Sannt’ Andrea

 (21-41) for the right.

 

Assignment #54 - Due Wednesday, January 26

2005 Short Essay - 10 minutes

Both of the residences shown were built for wealthy merchants in the mid-fifteenth century. The building on the left is French, and the building on the right is Italian.

Discuss and account for the differences between these buildings.

Use image House of Jaques Coeur, France

(18-28) for the left.

Use image Alberti’s Palazzo Rucellai, Florence

 (21-33) for the right.

Assignment #55 - Due Thursday, January 27

Please define:

Canvas

Chiaroscuro

Cinquecento

Glazes

Ignudi

Martyrium

Quoins                                                                               

Sacra conversazione

Sfumato

1. Why is there a change between the Early Renaissance and the High Renaissance?
2. Assess the use of mathematics in the work of Leonardo.
3. Explain the concept behind Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man.
4. Compare and contrast Da Vinci’s Last Supper (22-3) with Castagno’s Last Supper (21-37)
5. What does the text book mean by Disegno? Why was this important in Renaissance Italy?

Assignment #56 - Due Friday, January 28

1. Describe Michelangelo's approach to the human form.
2. Michelangelo was a brilliant sculptor, painter and architect. Give an example work of each medium. Read ahead for the architecture.
3. Discuss the different views about painting, held by Da Vinci, and sculpture, by Michelanglo.
4. What's the difference between a "pietà" and a "lamentation" of Christ?
5. Summarize the process and controversy involved in art restoration.
6. Discuss Julius II’s efforts to aggrandize the city of Rome and create a new golden age of papal art. Focus your answer on at least two specific works he commissioned.
7. What are the four branches of knowledge according to the 16th century papacy that Raphael included in the Vatican paintings? Why was it important to include this in the fresco? How does this artwork look back to the classical past of Greece and Rome?

The Medici Family - PBS Special on Hulu

The Medici family was integral to the rebirth of the arts during the Renaissance era. This documentary outlines all of their achievments. It is worth watching!

Homework Assignments :January 17-21

Assignment #50 - Due Tuesday. Jan 18

Early Renaissance – 15^th c. Italy

Complete the slide notes.

For each piece of art, fully identify with title, artist, date, and time period. Include at least 3 facts about each piece. Think about its use as propaganda, funerary art, public art, religious art, who commissioned it, why was it made, and what purpose did it serve?

Sketchbook Assignment: Due: Wed. Jan 19

Time Line of Early Renn. Work (to be completed in your sketchbook)

Using the following categories, choose three works of art from each category. First, fully identify the category, and the major historical events that shaped the artwork during that time. How did the culture influence the art? Fully identify each piece of art you selected, and describe the distinguishing characteristics of each piece. In total, you will have discussed 12 specific pieces of artwork, and described 4 different time periods for a total of 16 points.

1.)Originated in Florence (21-1 to 21-8)

2.)Architecture (any part of the chapter)

3.)Medici’s Commissions (21-20 – 21-27)

4.) Piety & Devotion (21-36 to 21-51)

Assignment #51- Due Thursday. Jan 20

Please define:

Bottega

Humanism

Lantern

Ortogonal

Pilaster

Quattrocento

Rusticate

Trompe l’oeil

linear perspective

atmospheric perspective

1.  How was the style of art in the Early Italian Renaissance different from that of the Northern Renaissance we studied from the previous chapter? List at least 3 detailed examples.
2.  What Classical elements were included in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi?
3.  Why were so many Early Italian Renaissance buildings so decorative on the interior but not on the exterior?
4.  How were the use of column orders of the Palazzo Rucellai similar to that of the Roman Colosseum?
5.  Artistically speaking, how are the doors of Ghiberti similar AND different from the Bernward Doors? Use a venn diagram if needed.
6.  How did Masaccio create the illusion of depth on the wall of the Trinity fresco?
7.  How is Masaccio's use of modeling slightly different than Giotto's?
8.  What is the difference between intuitive perspective and linear perspective? Give any example from the book for each technique.

Sketchbook Assignment: Due – Friday, Jan 21

2005 Long Essay Question: Most cultures have made use of art's narrative function. Select and fully identify two works of art that visually convey a narrative.  At least one of your choices must be from beyond the European tradition.  Identify the subject of each narrative and discuss the means used to convey the narrative. Use Masaccio’s Tribute Money (21-10) and the Mayan Mural (14-11)

NYTimes Article: A Prolific Art Forger

An interesting article from the Times about a man who is a forgery artist, who donates his paintings to museums, not for money, but to see if they pass for authenticity!

2008 Short Answer: Allegory of Good Government

2008 Short Answer: Due on January 13, 2011
In your text book, using images 19-15 and 19-16 complete the following question:
The slides show two views of the same fresco cycle in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena.
Identify the artist. Explain how the subject and meaning of the fresco cycle relate to its location. (10 minutes)

D'Orsay Museum - Paris, France

The Musée d'Orsay a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine, housed in the former railway station, the Gare d'Orsay, an impressive Beaux-Arts edifice built between 1898 and 1900. It holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography, and is probably best known for its extensive collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces (the largest in the world) by such painters such as Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin and Van Gogh. From Wikipedia

Homework Assignments January 9-15

Early Renaissance Italy and Northern Europe

Assignment #47 - Due Monday, Jan. 10

14^th C. Italian Art

Complete the slide notes. For each piece of art, fully identify with title, artist, date, and time period. Include at least 3 facts about each piece. Think about its use as propaganda, funerary art, public art, religious art, who commissioned it, why was it made, and what purpose did it serve?

Assignment # 48 - Due Wednesday, Jan 12

15^th C. Art N. Europe and Spain

Complete the slide notes. For each piece of art, fully identify with title, artist, date, and time period. Include at least 3 facts about each piece. Think about its use as propaganda, funerary art, public art, religious art, who commissioned it, why was it made, and what purpose did it serve? 

Assignment #49 - Due Thursday, Jan 13

 Please define the following vocabulary:

• Book of Hours
• Donor
• Engraving
• Etching
• Intaglio
• Grisaille
• Polyptych
• Triptych
• Woodcut

• How does the attitude and focus of the population change during this time?   Why are the artists now being hired to create secular art more than purely religious art tied to the church?
• The Merode Altarpiece is a classic example of the "steep perspective" used by Northern Renaissance painters. What do you think this means?
• How is a woodcut print different from an engraving (or intaglio) method?
• What were some of the most important innovations in art media and spatial techniques at this time?
• Why does the portrait – absent in art for nearly 1000 years – return in this period?
• Using these two images, 20-19 (right) and 32-4 please fully identify each work of art. Using a Venn diagram, how are they similar, and how are they different. Elaborate as much as possible!

2002 AP Art History Long Essay – Due Friday, January 14

Works of art often combine images with text.  Choose and fully identify two specific works made after 500 C.E. that combines images with the text.  The works must come from different art historical periods. Note: Do not choose works with text consisting only of names, labels, or artist’s signatures.  Discuss the relationship between text and image in the two works you have chosen.  

Please choose two works of art to discuss for this question. Complete the outline, and then type up your essay!

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