High Renaissance and Impressionism

ASSIGNMENT: Write an essay comparing and contrasting two works of art from two different styles covered in this course between the periods of the High Renaissance and Impressionism. Selected works of art must be from Modules 8-14.
You must cover the following points in this comparison:
Introduction and Thesis
1. Introduce the artwork titles, period styles and artists names
2. Briefly state what you believe is significant about these artworks
3. In other words… Tell your reader what works of art you will be discussing and why you think they are important
Stylistic analysis
1. Correctly identify artwork titles, period styles and artists names
2. Compare the artworks by discussing key stylistic characteristics associated with artists and period styles
3. Apply art history vocabulary correctly and uses it to support your stylistic analysis
4. In other words… What make these works stylistically significant?
Cultural analysis
1. Compare the artworks by discussing key cultural issues associated with artists and periods
2. Discuss how the cultural context of each period influenced the artistic development of the period style (Make connections between cultural context and style)
3. In other words… What makes these works culturally significant?
Conclusion and Thematic Connection
1. Analyze the ways art can affect and/or reflect cultural, political and social issues
2. Draw conclusions about the artist / society which produced the artwork from the comparison
3. In other words… What “Thematic Connection” can you make between the two works of art that helps you better understand them or the culture they represent?

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Research
1. Incorporate 5 sources (outside of lecture notes & textbook) to support your analysis
2. Properly cite your sources using MLA format
3. Include a list of “Works Cited”
Written Mechanics
1. Use of grammar, spelling and punctuation correctly throughout your paper
2. Proofread
3. In other words…there should be no mechanical errors!
4. SOURCES: 3 in addition to the module text
1. scholarly professional web site (for example, a museum, research institute or university)
2. nonfiction book published within the last 50 years
3. an art history textbook such as Garnders Art Through the Ages, Jansen’s, or Schneider-Adams
4. professional art historical publication (magazine or journal, can be online) such as The Art Bulletin
Remember, The two artworks must be from different styles.
(Choose the two works from this Modules 8-14)
Module 8
Façade of New St. Peter’s, by Carlo Maderno, Vatican City, Rome, 1606-1612.
Plan of New St. Peter’s, by Carlo Maderno, piazza by Bernini.
New St Peter’s Cathedral, Vatican City, Rome, 1506-1666.
Baldacchino, by Bernini, New St. Peter’s Cathedral, Rome, 1624-1633.
David, by Bernini, 1623.
Cornaro Chapel, by Bernini Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, 1645-52.
Ecstasy of Saint Theresa, by Bernini from the Cornaro Chapel, Rome, 1645-52.
Conversion of Saint Paul, by Caravaggio, 1601.
Calling of Saint Matthew, by Caravaggio, 1597-1601.
Judith Beheading Holofernes, by Artemisia Gentileschi, 1614-1620.

Module 9
Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, by Jose de Ribera, 1639.
Saint Serapion, by Francisco de Zurbaran, 1628
Water Carrier of Seville, by Diego Velazquez c, 1619.
Surrender at Breda, by Diego Velazquez 1634-1635.
King Philip IV of Spain, by Diego Velazquez 1644.
Las Meninas, by Diego Velazquez 1656.
Elevation of the Cross, by Peter Paul Rubens Antwerp Cathedral, 1610.
Arrival of Marie de’Medici at Marseilles, by Peter Paul Rubens 1622-25.
Allegory of the Outbreak of War, by Peter Paul Rubens 1638
Charles I Dismounted, by Anthony Van Dyck, c. 1635.

Module 10
Archers of St. Hadrian, by Frans Hals c.1633.
The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq, “The Night Watch”, by Rembrandt, 1642
Self-Portraits by Rembrandt, any date.
Christ with the Sick around Him, by Rembrandt, 1649.
Allegory of the Art of Painting, by Vermeer 1670-1675.
Still Life with Oysters, Rum, Glass, & Silver Cup, by Willem Claesz Heda, 1634
Adoration of the Shepherds, Georges de la Tour, 1645-1650
Et in Arcadia Ego, by Poussin c. 1655.
Landscape with Cattle and Peasants, by Claude Lorrain, 1629
Louis XIV by Rigaud, 1701
Palace at Versailles, begun 1669.

Module 11
L’Indifferent, by Watteau c. 1716.
Return from Cythera, by Watteau 1717-1719.
Cupid a Captive, by Boucher, 1754.
The Swing, by Fragonard, 1766.
Nymph and Satyr, by Clodion, c. 1775.
A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery, by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1763-1765.
Basin of San Marco from San Giorgio Maggiore, by Canaletto, 1740.
The Village Bride, by Greuze, 1761.
Grace at Table, by Chardin, 1740.
Self-Portrait, by Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun, 1790.
“Breakfast Scene” from Marriage a la Mode, by William Hogarth, 1745.
Portrait of Paul Revere, by John Singleton Copley, 1768-1770.

Module 12
Cornelia Presenting her Children as Treasures, by Angelica Kauffmann, 1785.
Oath of the Horatii, by Jacques-Louis David 1784.
The Death of Marat, by Jacques-Louis David 1793.
The Coronation of Napoleon, by Jacques-Lou
is David 1805-1808.
The Pantheon “Sainte-Genevieve”, by Soufflot, Paris, 1755-1792.
Chiswick House, by Boyle and Kent, near London, begun 1725.
Monticello, by Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1770-1806.
United State’s Capitol, by Benjamin Latrobe, 1791-1852.

Module 13
Grande Odalisque, by Ingres, 1814.
The Nightmare, by Fuseli, 1781.
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, etching from Los Caprichos, by Goya.
The Third of May, 1808, by Goya, 1814.
Saturn Devouring His Children, by Goya, 1819-1823.
Raft of the Medusa, by Gericualt, 1818-1819.
Death of Sardanapalus, by Delacroix, 1826.
The Haywain, by John Constable, 1821.
The Slave Ship, by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1840.

Module 14
Burial at Ornans, by Courbet, 1849.
The Gleaners, by Jean-Francois Millet, 1857.
The Third-Class Carriage, by Daumier, 1862.
Le Dejuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), by Manet, 1863.
Olympia, by Manet, 1863.
Nymphs and Satyr, by Bouguereau, 1873
Impression Sunrise, by Monet,1872.
Le Moulin de la Galette, by Renoir, 1876.
Bar at the Folies-Bergere, by Manet 1881-1882.
The Tub, by Degas,1886.
The Bath, by Mary Cassatt, 1892.