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
- Why is there a change between the Early Renaissance and the High Renaissance?
- Assess the use of mathematics in the work of Leonardo.
- Explain the concept behind Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man.
- Compare and contrast Da Vinci’s Last Supper (22-3) with Castagno’s Last Supper (21-37)
- What does the text book mean by Disegno? Why was this important in Renaissance Italy?
Assignment #56 - Due Friday, January 28
- Describe Michelangelo's approach to the human form.
- Michelangelo was a brilliant sculptor, painter and architect. Give an example work of each medium. Read ahead for the architecture.
- Discuss the different views about painting, held by Da Vinci, and sculpture, by Michelanglo.
- What's the difference between a "pietà" and a "lamentation" of Christ?
- Summarize the process and controversy involved in art restoration.
- 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.
- 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?
