What characterises Egyptian sculpture?

Note characteristics of Egyptian painting.

How did the Greeks distinguish themselves from other peoples?

Give the three periods and dates of ancient Greek civilisation

Describe the kouros figure.

Describe classical Greek art.

What is the Parthenon and what was it used for?

Why and how did the art of the Mediterranean change at the end of the 4th century BCE?

Week 3: Medieval to Pre-Renaissance Painting
Answer the following questions based on the Required Reading: Honour & Fleming, A World History of Art, Chapter 9, sections on Italian Gothic and Giotto. You may also read Prebles’ Artforms Chapter 16, pp. 263-278 (sections on The Renaissance) for a broad overview of the Renaissance period.
Focus on painting (you can skim read the parts on architecture and sculpture).

Chapter 9 Italian Gothic
How did compositions change during the second half of the twelfth century?

What further change took place in wall-painting during the thirteenth century?

How does Cimabue’s Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Prophets mark a radical change in style?

How can the significance of the Virgin Mary be recognised in Duccio’s Virgin and Child Enthroned in Majesty?

Giotto di Bondone (c. 1267-1337)
Why did Giotto become more famous than his contemporaries in Siena and Rome?

What was significant about Giotto’s paintings in the Scrovegni (or Arena) Chapel in Padua?

What did Bishop Sicardo (c. 1155-1215) write in a treatise that images should do?

What was significant about Giotto’s style in the Scrovegni Chapel paintings?

Identify some of the specific qualities of fresco painting.


Week 4: Early Renaissance Painting
Answer the following questions based on the Required Reading: Honour & Fleming, A World History of Art, Chapter 10, sections on The Beginnings of the Italian Renaissance, Masaccio, A New Style in Flanders, Van Eyck, Alberti, Italian Painting and the Church and Secular Painting

The Beginnings of the Italian Renaissance
Identify some of the key concepts and values of the Renaissance.

Masaccio (1401-28)
Identify distinctive characteristics of the work of Masaccio (1401-28)

What is chiaroscuro?

A New Style in Flanders and Van Eyck

What was the great contribution made by Flemish painters to Western art?

Jan Van Eyck (c. 1390-1441)
Why is the name of van Eyck known as compared to his Flemish contemporaries?

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72)
What were the achievements of Alberti as a Renaissance man?

Italian Painting and the Church
State the three reasons given for why religious images were introduced into churches.

What is distinctive about the work of Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro, d. 1455)?

What is distinctive about the work of Paolo Uccello (1397-1475)?

What is distinctive about the work of Piero della Francesca (c. 1420-92)?

Why were gold backgrounds abandoned?

Secular Painting

What possible reason does the text give for the development of Florentine art and architecture in relation to Gothic art and architecture?

What is a cassone?

What is distinctive about La Primavera, c. 1478, by Botticelli (Alessandro Filipepi, c. 1445-1510)?


Week 5: High Renaissance Painting
Answer the following questions based on the Required Reading: Honour & Fleming, A World History of Art, Chapter 11, Introduction to the chapter and sections on The High Renaissance in Italy, including Leonardo da Vinci; Harmony, Unity and Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian and Mannerism.

How was Alberti influential?

Identify significant events in the wider history of the sixteenth century.

The High Renaissance in Italy
Note features of the first quarter of the sixteenth century in Italy.

According to Giorgio Vasari, what features of the ‘modern’ style are evident in the work of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)?

Define entelechy.

Note distinctive features of Leonardo’s painting of the Virgin and Child with St Anne (1508-10) including those which were soon widely practiced.

Note comparisons between Piero della Francesca, Baptism of Christ, c. 1445 and Leonardo da Vinci’s Virgin and Child with St Anne (1508-10).

Harmony, Unity and Raphael
Identify the distinct style of Raphael.

Michelangelo
How does Michelangelo’s David differ from previous representations?

Why may Titian be regarded as the greatest Renaissance painter?

Mannerism and Mannerisms
What is meant by Mannerism and when did it take place?

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