Homework: Week of January 22-28

Monday, January 23: Assignment #68

Early Renaissance – 15^th c. Italy

Complete the worksheet. Make sure you use the glossary for the definitions and the textbook to help you.

Wednesday, January 25: Assignment #69

 Last day to hand in any late work!

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?

Thursday, January 26: Assignment #70

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.

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.

Friday, January 27

Sketchbook Assignment #71

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).

Medici Series

Watch the documentary on the Medici family on hulu:

http://www.hulu.com/empires

Homework: January 15-21

Your midterm is due on Tuesday, January 17.

Remember to fill in the scantron and write the essays in the space provided.

I am not accepting this late, do not forget it at home!

Wednesday, January 18: Assignment #65

“We can best gauge the extent of this revolution if we compare one of Giotto's frescoes from Padua, with a similar theme in the thirteenth-century miniature. The subject is the mourning over the dead body of Christ, with the Virgin embracing her Son for the last time. In the miniature the artist was not interested in representing the scene as it might have happened. He varied the size of the figures so as to fit them well into the page, and if we try to imagine the space between the figures in the foreground and St John in the background - with Christ and the Virgin in between - we realize how everything is squeezed together, and how little the artist cared about space. It is the same indifference to the real place where the scene is happening which led Nicola Pisano to represent different episodes within one frame. Giotto's method is completely different. Painting, for him, is more than a substitute for the written word. We seem to witness the real event as if it were enacted on a stage. Compare the conventional gesture of the mourning St John in the miniature with the passionate movement of St John in Giotto's painting as he bends forward, his arms extended sideways. If we try here to imagine the distance between the cowering figures in the foreground and St John, we immediately feel that there is air and space between them, and that they can all move. These figures in the foreground show how entirely new Giotto's art was in every respect. We remember that early Christian art had reverted to the old Oriental idea that to tell a story clearly every figure had to be shown completely, almost as was done in Egyptian art. Giotto abandoned these ideas. He did not need such simple devices. He shows us so convincingly how each figure reflects the grief of the tragic scene that we sense the same grief in the cowering figures whose faces are hidden from us." ~ E.H. Grombrich, "The Story of Art":

Giotto di BONDONE
The Mourning of Christ
c. 1305
Fresco
Cappella dell'Arena, Padua

Read this passage above by E.H. Gombrich's critique of Giotto's work.  Based on the writing, describe some ways that Giotto was a special kind of painter.

Compare Giotto’s Lamentation to the Nerezi Lamentation (figure 12-27). Explain the similarities and differences between them.

Explain both the similarities and differences between Cimabue's and Giotto's Virgin and Child Enthroned. (19-6 and 19-7)

Thursday, January 19: Assignment # 66

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?

Friday, January 20: Assignment # 67

15^th C. Italian Art

Complete the guided questions

The guided questions deal with pages 573 to 588.

This is an important chapter!