Day 1: Role of Art Historian Homework: Read Gardner’s pp. 1- 7 Prepare to discuss on Day 2

1. How is Mantegna’s ceiling of the Camera degli Sposi the climax of Early Renaissance experiments in perspective?

2. Critique Mantegna’s foreshorten of the Dead Christ.

3. Describe the narrative of Piero’ Finding of the True Cross.
4. How did Signorelli’s Damned Cast into Hell reflect the changing politics of Florence?
5. Define these terms:

Trompe l’oeil

1. Explain the composition, atmospheric setting, and “Intention of his soul” in Leonard’s Virgin of the Rocks.

3. What is it that creates the eternal fascination with the Mona Lisa?

5. 
   Define these terms:
   

silverpoint

disegno esterno

disegno interno

sfumato

atmospheric setting

1. Explain Michelangelo’s best known observation about sculpture and how this was a break from tradition sculpture, architecture and painting.

2. Compare and contrast (artistically and politically) Michelangelo’s David with Donatello’s and Verrocchio’s – and sculptures of classical antiquity.

3. Summarize the elements of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

4. Explain the narrative of the Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel.
5. Define these terms:

Terribilita

Putti

grisaille

1. How does Raphael’s Madonna in the Meadow compare and contrast with Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks.

3. How did the Counter Reformation influence Pope Paul III and Michelangelo’s Last Judgment fresco?

4. Explain Michelangelo’s Finishing Touches to St. Peter’s

Golden Legend

Half length portrait

¾ view portrait

Figura serpentinata

Quoins

1. Explain how the Venetian’s school expressed texture in their oil paintings.

2. How does Castelfranco’s Pastoral Symphony exemplify Poesia?
3. What are the meaningful choices that Titian made in his painting, “Madonna of the Pesaro Family”?
4. How does the portrait of Isabella d’Este reflect her power and personality (see Women in the Renaissance Art World)?

5. Define these terms:

Sacra conversazione

Conceit: a fanciful, ingenious, or witty notion

Arcadia(n)

Colorito

Poesia

Schools
Day 95 Ch. 22 High Renaissance Art and Mannerism: Read Gardner’s pp. 647 – 655

1. Explain the composition of Madonna of the Harpies.

2. Compare and contrast Mannerism with High Renaissance.
3. How does Parmigianino’s Madonna with the Long Neck express Mannerism.
4. How did Mannerism express itself in sculpture such as the Abduction of the Sabine Women?

5. Define these terms:

Maniera

Style

Baroque
Day 96 Ch. 22 High Renaissance Art and Mannerism: Read pp. 655 – 661Prepare to discuss on Day 97:

1. Compare and contrast Tintoretto’s Last Supper with Leonardo’s

2. How did the Catholic Church influence artists such as Veronese?

3. Explain the architecture and architectural theories of Andrea Palladio.

4. What plans and theories of the architect Palladio continue to be seen in architecture to this day?

5. Define these terms:
Day 97 Ch. 22 High Renaissance Art and Mannerism: Prepare Flash Cards and Focus questions for grading
Day 98 Portraiture: Read Gardner’s pp. 663 – 672 Prepare to discuss/quiz on Day 99:

1. What was the Protestant Reformation and what was is effect on art in Northern Europe?

3. How did the purpose and placement of the Isenheim Altarpiece effect many of the meaningful choices made by Matthais Grunewald?

5. Define these terms:

Allegory

Symbolic visual rhetoric

Iconoclasm
Day 99 Ch. 23 16^th Century Art in Northern Europe and Spain: Read Gardner’s pp. 672 - 679

Prepare to discuss/quiz on Day 100:

1. How are each of the elements of The French Ambassadors reflections of the historical and political situation of the time in which it was painted?

2. What is the formalized French style as seen in Cloduet’s Francis I?

3. What is the Fountainebleau School and what is their style of decoration?

4. What are the characteristics of French architecture of the 16^th century?

5. Define these terms:

Anamorphic image

Day 100 Ch. 23 16^th Century Art in Northern Europe and Spain: Read Gardner’s pp. 679 - 687

Prepare to discuss/quiz on Day 101:

1. Which details of the Moneychanger and His Wife, reflect the secular and spiritual aspects of life in the Netherlands of the 16^th century?

2. How are Pieter Bruegel’s paintings examples of genre painting?
3. How does Spanish architecture of the 16^th century reflect Italian Classicism, and yet goes beyond it?

4. How does El Greco combine realism, mannerism and the terrestrial and celestial realms in The Burial of Count Orgaz?

5. Define these terms:

1. What makes Baroque Art different than the classical art of the Renaissance?

2. Compare and contrast Bernini’s David with those of Donatello, Verrocchio, and Michelangelo.

3. Describe the theatrical devices and effect that Bernini used in creating the Ecstasy of St. Teresa.

4. How did Borromini create dynamic architecture as seen in the façade of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and the Chapel of Saint Ivo?
5. Define these terms:

Baldacchino

Didactic

Proscenium

1. Describe Carravaggio’s use of chiaroscuro in The Conversion of St. Paul and Gentileschi’s Judith Slaying Holofernes to create drama and mystery.

2. Explain how Carracci’s use of Quadro Riportato in the Loves of the Gods differs from the style of ceiling paint which preceded him (like the Sistine Chapel).

3. How did Gaulli create such a stunning dramatic effect with his Triumph of the name of Jesus?

4. Where does the building end and the illusion begin in Pozzo’s Glorifcation of St. Ignatius?

5. Define these terms:

Quadro riportato

tenebrism

Day 104 Ch. 24 Baroque Art: Read Gardner’s pp. 708 – 716 Prepare to discuss/quiz on Day 105:

1. Why did Baroque artists, particularly de Ribera and de Zurbaran choose plebian features for their representations of St. Bartholomew and St. Serapion?

2. Summarize the multiple interpretations of Velazquez’s Las Meninas.

3. Explain the Italian influences in Rubens’ Elevation of the Cross.

4. Explain the symbolism and purpose of Rubens’ Allegory of the Outbreak of War.

5. Define these terms:

1. Explain the asymmetrical balance Van Dyck achieves with his Charles I Dismounted.

2. How did patronage in the Dutch Netherlands differ from other countries and how did that patronage contribute to the subject matter favored in Dutch paintings?

3. How did Frans Hals overcome the challenge of group portraiture as seen in either the Archers of St. Hadrian or the Women Regents of the Old Men’s Home at Haarlem?

4. How did Rembrandt end the conflict of light and dark in his portraits such as his Self-Portrait?

5. Define these terms:

Still Lifes

Breakfast pieces

Idea of Light

Psychology of Light

etching

Day 106 Ch. 24 Baroque Art: Read Gardner’s pp. 724 – 732 Prepare to discuss/quiz on Day 107:

1. What does Judith Leyster tell us about herself in her Self-Portrait?

2. How does Vermeer separate the viewer from the subject matter in his paintings: The Letter and Allegory of the Art of Painting?

3. What is the moralistic tone of the Feast of St. Nicholas and how does Jan Steen create it?

4. Why would the wealth of the Dutch maritime trade lead to the popularity of Still Lifes?

5. Define these terms:

Catalogue raisonne

Dendrochronlogy

1. Explain how Poussin’s theories on painting are manifest in “Et in Arcadia Ego.”

2. Compare and contrast French Baroque and Italian Baroque styles.

3. How did Georges De La Tour harmonize the contrary elements of classical composure, fervent spirituality and genre realism in his painting, “Adoration of the Shepherds”?
4. Which elements combine to make Versailles one of the greatest works of art of all time?

5. Define these terms:

Temporal artwork

Absolutism

Divine Right

Apotheosis

1. How did Inigo Jones’ Banqueting House at Whitehall show the influences of Palladio or not?

2. How did Christopher Wren’s St. Paul’s Cathedral show the influences of St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome, but find a different solution to the dome/bell towers problem?

3. Explain how Vanbrugh was out of his mind.

3. 
   Compare and Contrast Asam’s Assumption of the Virgin and Bernini’s Ecstasy of St. Teresa.
   

5.Define these terms:

1. How is the Lotus Mahal a combination of Hindu and Islamic architectures?

2. What influenced Akbar the Great and Humayan to create and expand the atelier (Imperial Workshop) of painters?

3. Summarize the steps necessary to create an Indian Miniature.

Quwwat al-Islam

Vijayanagara

Vimanas

Mandapas

Taj Mahal

Gita Govinda

Avatar

1. How did the British influence Indian Art?

2. Why is the Sukhothai Walking Buddha unusual?

3. Describe the magnificence of the Schwedagon Pagoda.

4. Compare and contrast contemporary art and tradition art in Southeast Asia.
5. Define these terms:

Wat Mahathat

Chakravartin

Pagoda

1. Compare and contrast Guan Daosheng and Wu Zhen’s treatment of the subject of bamboo. How do these comparisons reflect their different philosophies of life?

2. What is the process in creating Chinese Porcelain?
3. How do Chinese gardens differ from European gardens such as those at Versailles?

4. What are the differences between the Northern and Southern Schools of Landscape painting during the Ming Dynasty? To which school does Lofty Mount Lu belong? What clues did you use to decide?

5. Define these terms:

Literati

Logograms

Porcelain

Kaolin

Overglaze/enamels

Yang

Yin
Day 114 Chapter 26 The Art of Later China and Korea Read Gardner’s pp. 772-783

1. 
   How does Giuseppe Castiglione combine Eastern and Western artistic sensibilities in his art?
   

2. How did Marxism affect Chinese art?

3. Compare and contrast the ink techniques of China, Korea, and Japan.

4. Compare and Contrast the difference styles of the Tosa and Kano Schools

Primordial Line

Zen Buddhism

Broken or Flung Ink Style

Fusuma – painted sliding doors

Day 115 Chapter 26 The Art of Later China and Korea, Chapter 27 From the Shoguns to the Present

Read Gardner’s pp. 783 – 794 Prepare to discuss/quiz on Day 116:

1. What were the emerging art forms during the Momoyama period?

2. What were the characteristics of the Rimpa school?

3. Explain the use of Japan Wood block prints in the production of Ukiyo-e and nishiki-e.

4. How did Western Culture influence Japanese art?
5. Define these terms:

Japanese Tea Ceremony

Wabi

Sabi

Shino

Tokonoma

Haiku

Nishiki-e

Nihonga

Yoga
Day 116 Chapter 27 From the Shoguns to the Present Prepare flash cards and focus questions for grading

1. Compare and contrast Rococo and Baroque styles especially when comparing the Salon de la Princesse and the Hall of Mirrors of Versailles.

2. Who were the Femmes savantes and what was their influence in the salon culture?

3. What was the division in the French Royal Academy during the Rococo period? Which side won? Why?

4. What role does sensual fantasy play in the narrative of the rococo paintings?

5. Define these terms:

Rocaille

Fete galante

1. What affects did the Enlightenment have on Art?

2. How were the philosophies of Rousseau expressed in French art of the 18^th century?
3. How was narrative and satire expressed as a “Taste of the Natural” in English art of the 18^th century?

4. How was the “Taste for the Natural” in American art different from that of England and France?

5. Define these terms:

Encyclopedie

Modernity

Voltaire

Industrial Revolution

Rousseau

Natural Man

1. How is David’s “Oath of the Horatii” a paragon of neo-classicism?

5. Define these terms:

Grand Tour

Verduta

Exemplum Virtutis

1. How did the rise of Romanticism influence and change the styles and compositions of the neo-classicists?

2. Who was Ingres’ favorite artist? How can you tell?

3. Explain Goya’s “extended time frame” in the composition and narrative of “The Third of May, 1808.”

4. How is Goya’s “Saturn Devouring One of his Children” a good example of Romanticism?

5. Define these terms:

Romanticism

Sublime
Day 121 Chapter 28 The Enlightenment and its Legacy Read Gardner’s pp. 832 - 840

1. Explain the composition of Gericault’s “Raft of the Medusa.”

2. How does Delacroix epitomize the colorist vs. Ingres’ the draftsman?
3. What about Romanticism would change the view of landscape painting from background for human action to its own genre?

4. How do the colors of Turner’s “The Slave Ship” evoke moods and imagination?

5. Define these terms:

Picturesque

1. What was the Hudson River School? What did they paint? How did they intermix philosophy and American ideologies in their paintings?

2. What was the Beaux-arts architectural style?

3. Explain the genius behind the Crystal Palace.

4. What effects did photography have for the artists of the 19^th century?

5. Define these terms:

Manifest destiny

Daguerreotype

Camera obscura

Camera lucida

Calotype
Day 123 Chapter 28 The Enlightenment and its Legacy

Prepare flash cards and focus questions for grading

1. Explain the meanings of “Modernism” and “Realism” philosophically and in the appearance of art and architecture, especially “The Stone Breakers.”

2. How did Honore Daumier provide a social commentary through his art work?

3. Summarize the criticism of Manet’s “Luncheon on the Grass.”

4. Compare and contrast the Realistic Art: Olympia and the Academic Art: Nymphs and Satyrs.
5. Define these terms:

Empiricism

Positivism

Social Darwinism

Communist Manifesto/Class Struggle

Marxism

Avant-garde

Realism

Primitive

Barbizon School

Academic Art

Day 125 Art of the Later 19^th Century Read Gardner’s pp. 863-872Prepare to discuss/quiz on Day 126:

1. Explain the Pre-Raphaelites’ choice of name and subject matter in contrast to the Realists.

3. How did Caillebote and Pissarro create the feeling of the fleeting moment in their paintings?

4.Oh, Renoir! What is your response to Le Moulin de la Galette?

5. Define these terms:

Zoopraxiscope

Persistence of Vision

Impressionism

Haussmanization

1. What elements of Manet’s “A Bar at the Folies-Bergere” confirm him as the first Modernist artist?

2. How did Degas’ interest in Japonisme express itself in the Ballet Rehearsal and The Tub?

3. Summarize the result of the Impressionist’s experiments in color.

4. Explain how Whistler’s Nocturnes differed from other artist’s work (Particularly John Ruskins’ Pre-Raphaelists).
5. Define these terms:

Japonisme

Plein air

Local color

1. How was Van Gogh’s technique and choice of colors indicative of his emotional state?

2. Compare and Contrast Gauguin’s use of color to that of Pissarro, his teacher.

3. Explain Georges Seurat’s painting style.

4. Explain how Cezanne’s interest in form and color was expressed in his paintings.

5. Define these terms:

Pointillism

Successive contrasts

Optical Mixture

1. Explain the issues of imagination, fantasy, and formal changes in the art of the Symbolists and their roles as prophets.

3. Explain the idea behind aesthetic functional objects in the Arts and Crafts Movement.

modern psychic life

1. How does the stone disk of Coyoxauhqui reflect the values of the Aztec culture?

2. Explain the symbolism of the statue of Coatlicue.
3. What is the importance of Machu Picchu?
4. Explain the hybrid Golden Enclosure and the church of Santo Domingo. How is this structure a symbol of the Spanish conquest of the Inka?

3. 
   Define these terms:
   

Superimposition

Quipu

Ashlar masonry

1. What were the traditional arts of the Southwest Natives?

2. What purposes did masks and totem poles have for Northwest Natives?
3. What were the traditional arts of the Plains Natives?

4. How did the available materials determine the art forms of the various North American natives?

5.Define these terms:

Kiva

Katsina (kachinas)

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