Early Renaissance Italy and Northern Europe
Assignment #47 - Due Monday, Jan. 10
14th 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
15th 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.
