ART HISTORY 202 SECOND PAPER TOPIC

 

Due Tuesday, April 29th, at the beginning of class

 

Late papers lose 5 points per day.  (If something prevents you from turning the paper in on time, please contact me before class for an extension.)

 

For this assignment, you have two options:  a research paper or a project.  For both options, you will research one art work dating to the period from the Renaissance through Realism.  I have provided a list of suitably complex pieces on the back; you may choose a different piece if you get my approval.  Your paper should address a specific question about the piece and should include different scholarly interpretations.  You must use at least five sources in your research.  Be sure that your sources are appropriate (i.e., not from general art history texts), and try to include articles, which tend to be more specific and more recent.  You may use the Internet but be cautious.  Many sites are not monitored by authorities so these sites will not count toward your five sources.

 

PAPER OPTION: 

5-8 pages, double-spaced.  Please use 12-point font, preferably Times New Roman or Bookman Old Style, standard margins of one inch on all sides.  Your paper must have a bibliography.  Put your name and an appropriate title for the paper on a cover page.  Do not use any type of plastic cover or binder.  Grammar and spelling are important to keep your paper legible.  Poor writing will lower a paper’s grade.  In a sophomore level class such as 202, it is expected that all students can write a well organized, well written paper of this length.  If this is not true, it is imperative that you take a draft of your paper to CAPS so the art history tutor or an English tutor can help you; CAPS can also help with organization and research.  Do not use the first person (i.e., “I”, “we”), contractions, or colloquialisms. 

 

PROJECT OPTION:

Since many of you are art studio students, the second option allows you to use your research of a specific piece toward the creation of your own drawing, painting, photograph, print, sculpture, video, or whatever medium you prefer to work in.  The piece you research should inspire your work and must be identifiable in whatever you do, both visually and thematically.  You must also write one page discussing your research and how it led to the new piece.  Your paper must have a bibliography. 

 

 

1)     Jan van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece, 1432

2)     Raphael, Disputa, 1509-11

3)     Bronzino, Allegory of Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time, c.1545

4)     Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights, c.1505-15

5)     Matthias Grunewald, Isenheim Altarpiece, c.1510-15

6)     Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes, 1620

7)     El Greco, Burial of Count Orgaz, 1614

8)     Velasquez, Las Meninas, 1656

9)     Bernini, St. Teresa of Avila in Ecstasy, 1645-52

10)                        Caravaggio, Calling of Matthew, c.1599-1602

11)                        George de la Tour, The Repentant Magdalene, c.1640

12)                        Rembrandt, Captain Frans Banning Cocq Mustering His Company (The Night Watch), 1642

13)                        Vermeer, Allegory of the Art of Painting, 1670-75

14)                        Watteau, The Pilgrimage to Cythera, 1717

15)                        William Hogarth, Marriage a la Mode, 1743-45

16)                        Turner, The Fighting “Temeraire,” Tugged to Her Last Berth to be Broken Up, 1838

17)                        David, Death of Marat, 1793

18)                        Gericault, Raft of the Medusa, 1818-19

19)                        Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830

20)                        Goya, Third of May, 1808, 1814-15

21)                        Thomas Eakins, The Gross Clinic, 1875