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  1. AP Art History (Period Six)
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AP Art History (Period Six) Assignments

Instructor
Ms. Rachel Bronwyn
Term
2012 - 2013 School Year
Location
501
Description
Course Description
AP Art History is designed to provide the same benefits to secondary school students as those provided by an introductory college course in art history. In the course, students examine major forms of artistic expression from the ancient world to the present and from a variety of cultures. They learn to look and analyze works of art within their historical context and to articulate what they see or experience in a meaningful way. Students will learn how frame their understanding of a work of art in terms of how the work communicates visual meaning.
The main objectives of AP curriculum in Art History are to develop in students:
1. the ability to apply fundamental art and art historical terminology.
2. an appreciation for the process of making and displaying art.
3. an understanding of purpose and function of art.
4. the ability to analyze works of art in context of historical evidence and interpretation, examining such issues as politics, religion, patronage, gender, and ethnicity.
5. an understanding of cross-cultural and global nature of art.
An introductory college art history course content generally covers the various art forms in the following proportions: 40-50% painting and drawing, 25% architecture, 25% sculpture, and 5-10% other media (printmaking, photography, ceramics, fiber arts, etc.).
The AP Art History course content and AP Examination reflect these distributions. Moreover, students are expected to learn about 3,000 years of art—from the entire globe! See the attached sheet from the College Board which delineates how this knowledge is apportioned on the AP Exam. Our work in class will tend to reflect these demands.
Required Texts:
Glancey, Jonathan. The Story of Architecture, Dorling Kindersley, 2000.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History, 2nd ed., Abrams, 2002.

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Review slide shows for the AP test.
They all have different themes.....they are meant to help you pull ideas together.
Do not get overwhelmed by how many there are. You do not have to master them all. Use them to review and to help you link ideas and images across periods and cultures.
 
I cannot stop knitting hats. I cannot stop pulling together images based on different themes. Remember, I got a master's in art hsitory because I liked it so much. Clearly, I have issues!  :)

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Yes...SUNDAY!!!!
 
See you at 9:00 A.M.
I will bring donuts!!!  You bring your brains!
 
:) 

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See below for the slides we looked at in class...also, an additional set of slides that reviews composition. Plus a Modigliani video you should watch.
 
Amedeo Modigliani, Young Woman in a Shirt, 1918
 

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Architecture Review--not for the faint-hearted!

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See below for the abstract art slides. I added some early slides with comments that are meant to help you write claims/thesis statements when writing an essay. Simple stuff really, but it may be quite helpful! :)

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To supplement your readng about modern art: get yourself to a computer and search
for Modern Masters on YouTube--these seem to be longer version documentaries about artists like Matisse or Warhol--they seem to be produced by the British. They may be a nice balance to the SmartHistory videos.
Yes!!
There is far too much to master. Just take in what you can....

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Read pages 1102-1120 in Stokstad. Take notes...

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Read pages 1082-1102 in Stokstad. Take notes...

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See below for the photography slides from Saturday!  :

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Read pages 1059-01082 in Stokstad.
Take notes using the handout--extra points if you take your own Cornell notes on Stokstad or on the Khan Academy videos--here is a list of what you could watch...
 
In order of importance!!!
1. Picasso, Guernica, 1937
This one is about ten minutes, but this work of art is hugely important. Think about Guernica in combination with Goya’s 3rd of May, 1808 or Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People.
 
2. Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907 7:45
 
3. Picasso, Still-Life with Chair Caning, 1912 12:48
 
4. Braque, Le Viaduc à L'Estaque, (The Viaduct at L'Estaque), 1908 3:51
 
5. Picasso, The Reservoir, Horta de Ebro, 1909 4:15
 
6. Futurism
This one is about eleven minutes…a good overview.
 
7. 1907-1960: Age of Global Conflict 12:31
Works discussed: Pablo Picasso, Three Women at the Spring, oil on canvas, 1921 (MoMA) René Magritte, The Human Condition, oil on canvas, 1933 (private collection) Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie-Woogie, oil on canvas, 1943-44 (MoMA)
 
8. Matisse, Luxe, calme et volupté, 1904 3:26
 
9. Henri Matisse, The Red Studio, 1911 9:11
 
10. Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913 11:20
 
11. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Dresden, 1908 9:55
 
12. Paul Klee, Twittering Machine, 1922
 
We are in the home stretch!!! Six classes until the AP test--five if you are taking the AP Psych exam. We need to learn modern art to do well on the exam.
http://www.youtube.com/course?list=EC4A46CC7802913517

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Come to Saturday Scholars! In this special feature of Saturday Scholars, you will learn simply everything you need to know about the history of photography. If there is any extra time, we will take a look at architecture. Come and be amazed. Yes, there will be extra credit. Yes, there will be door prizes. Yes, there will be donuts. This event is not to be missed!

(All the cool kids will be there. And yes, it will be fetch if that matters to you!)

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Yes, we will finally get to the Egyptians!!! Don't miss Thursday's class...there will be music---Celina and Jaqueline have promised to "Walk Like Egyptians!" Jon has promised to sing Steven Martin's "King Tut" ballad--"When I die, don't think I'm no nut; don't want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut!"

And, we will start Modernism!

Your homework for Thursday....start reading chapter 28 of Stokstad. Most significantly, start working on these notes on Modernism...see below.

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See below for examples of the type of questions I will ask on Tuesday during the exam.
I feel pretty proud of this review.
If you prepare these slides, you will do well--I think.

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Test Today--make sure you choose the right one--test one or test two or test three.

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Test--major crazy test--it may take two days on Chapters 26 and 27 in Stokstad.

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Continue to work on the spring break assignment if you are behind; study for the test on Friday.
See below for the slides we looked at in class and other slides which will help you prepare for the test on Friday.

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Read chapters two and three in Stokstad.  Take notes.
Read pages 156-229 in Glancey--take notes selectively.
 
See Ancient Near East and Egypt notes and slides below as well as two separate sheets of non-textual resources--which might be more fun than reading that cumbersome Stokstad--not a text that one can read in bed.

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Read Glancey pages 134-155.
Take notes.
 
Thursday is your last chance to turn in any notes from chapter 27 (unless you have a truly compelling argument that involves illness or joining the circus or being part of the conclave in Vatican City).
 
I posted the slides from class below.
 
You will have a slide id quiz on Thursday where you will be asked to identify the artist. This slide id quiz will focus mostly on Impressionists. There will be several unknowns.
Review the characteristics of Impressionism and Japonisme. I will ask you to list three
characteristics for each.
 
In class on Thursday, we will discuss Post-Impressionism and Art Nouveau.
We will also have that quiz....

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Read pages 1030-1055 in Stokstad. Take notes.
Page attention to (in order as they appear on the pages)
    1. Paul Cezanne
    2. Georges Seurat
    3. Vincent VanGogh
    4. Paul Gauguin
    5. Gustave Moreau
    6. Odilon Redon
    7. Henri Rousseau
    8. James Ensor
    9. Edvard Munch
    10. Aguste Rodin
    11. Victor Horta and Art Nouveau
    12. Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
    13. Frederich Edwin Church
    14. Albert Bierstadt
    15. Tmothy O'Sullivan
    16. Augustus Saint Gaudens
    17. Winslow Homer
    18. Thomas Eakins
    19. Alfred Steiglitz
    20. Jacob Riis
    21. Henry Hobson Richardson (Richardson Romanesque)*
    22. Louis Sullivan*
    23. Frederick Law Olmstead*
Architects--you will "read about these men again Glancey.
Yep. I guess it is a lot.
They are all extremely important.
 
Yaneth, Carla, and Elinor Alexandra all borrowed videos--maybe you could invite yourself over for an art history movie night!!!!
 
I posted the slides we looked at in class below. Keeping studying and reading!

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For homework: read and annotate the handout you received in class.
 
Catch up, if you have fallen behind.
I expect by Friday, three “packets” of notes for Stokstad: 
  1. pages 978-996
  2. pages 996-1018
  3. pages 1019-1030
 
Review the slides posted below.
Keep working your way through the Khan Academy videos—remember, these brief videos provide you with another way of learning the material.
 
In class on Wednesday, 13 March we watched these Khan Academy videos and took notes.
1. Manet, The Balcony, 1868-69
2. Manet, Émile Zola, 1868
3. Édouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882
4. Monet, Rouen Cathedral Series, 1892-4
5. Monet, Les Nymphéas (The Water Lilies), 1918-26
6. Degas, Woman Bathing in a Shallow Tub, 1885
7. Degas, The Bellelli Family, 1858-67

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Read pages 1019-1030 in Stokstad.
Watch the "appropriate" video in Smart History and add the information to your notes.
 
Check in: 1848-1907: Industrial Revolution II
For Stokstad pages 1019-1030,  the "important" artists are...
Artists:
  1. Caillebotte, Gustave
  2. Cassatt, Mary
  3. Degas, Edgar
  4. Manet, Edouard
  5. Monet, Claude
  6. Morisot, Bertha
  7. Pissarro, Camille
  8. Renoir, Pierre-Auguste
Not all are represented in the SmartHistory videos.
 
 

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Read to page 1018 in Stokstad (stop at Impressionism).
Take notes.
Keep watching the Smart History videos.
You will need to check for the artists in both
1800-1848: Industrial Revolution I
1848-1907: Industrial Revolution II
For Stokstad pages 996-1018, the "important" artists are...
 
Artists:
    1. Bonheur, Rosa
    2. Bouguereau, Adolphe-Williams
    3. Cameron, Julia Margaret
    4. Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste
    5. Cole, Thomas
    6. Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille
    7. Courbet, Gustave
    8. Daguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mande
    9. Daumier, Honore
    10. Hunt, William Holman
    11. Leibl, Wilhelm
    12. Millet, Jean-Francois
    13. Nadar
    14. Rejilander, Oscar
    15. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
    16. Talbot, William Henry Fox
    17. Whistler, James Abbott McNeill
Not all are represented in the SmartHistory videos.
 
I will collect the notes from the documentary (Whistler and his Portrait of the Artist's Mother) we watched on Thursday plus the two chunks of notes:
 
1. pages 978-996
2. pages 996-1018

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Begin working on Chapter 27--it is extremely, extremely long.
Read pages 978-996 in Stokstad--only 10 full pages or less. Take notes.
 
  1. Jacques-Louis David 
  2.  Gros
  3. Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres
  4. Theodore Gericault
  5. Eugene Delacroix
  6. Francisco Goya
  7. Caspar David Friedrich
  8. Joseph Mallord WilliamTurner
  9. John Constable
  10. Theodore Rousseau
 
Start working through the 1800-1848: Industrial Revolution I Khan Academy videos that "match" the artists on these pages. Above is a list of the artists that matter--pretty much almost all of them on these pages. Sorry. Just how it goes.
The Khan Academy lists the artists by last name. I listed them by how they appear in the text.

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Spend time working with the slides--the slides have a TON of information packed into them!
Start learning the material and learning title and artists.
The last bit we will "cover" is architecture....Palladio and Jefferson and Boyle...read your Glancey--seriously..read it!
 
By-the-by: I improved some of the slides today and added stuff and tried to make the files denser and richer. So check out the new electronic files.

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Sorry! I am posting this homework at 6:25 on Tuesday night--I got behind.
 
You already know that you need to complete the notes on Fragonard that I handed out. Or else....(things will get ugly when I ask you to write in class).
 
Read pages 966 to the end of the chapter--takes notes--these notes are not due until Friday.
 
Okay. Study the slides. You will have a slide id quiz on Neoclassicial and Genre Pantings and Fuseli with a Rococo review --artists and titles.
 
For Friday you will need to learn the History Paintings and the Portraits with of course a review of
Neoclassicial, Genre Pantings,Fuseli and Rococo. See how it works?
 
I tried to load all the files that have QUIZ in the title to help you study. I of course will make a new quiz for Wednesday and Friday, because, frankly, I cannot help myself....

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See slides below.
 
• Read and take notes on pages 936-966 for Monday. See the assignment sheet for more information about what is important and what is coming!
 
• Watch the following videos--take Cornell Notes.
 
• Review and utilize the slides posted on the website for Monday, 25 February 2013—there are notes that accompany the slides. I listed the files (slides) below in order--which files you need to attend to first.
 
Videos to Watch
Notes Page One: Roccoco
http://www.youtube.com/course?list=ECB72EA0FF2BB3A9FE&edufilter=-UYcvQGRLktRabtXL3Eq1w
1. Fragonard, The Swing, 1767
2. Boucher, Madame de Pompadour, 1750
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlb5EjIL7zM&list=ECE8B643D8800519A7&edufilter=-UYcvQGRLktRabtXL3Eq1w
3. Fragonard, The Progress of Love
 
Notes Page Two: Neoclassicism
http://www.youtube.com/course?list=ECB72EA0FF2BB3A9FE&edufilter=-UYcvQGRLktRabtXL3Eq1w
1. Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1785
2. Jacques-Louis David, Death of Socrates, 1787
3. Jacques-Louis David, The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons, 1789
4. Jacques-Louis David, The Intervention of the Sabine Women, 1799
Posted Slides:
 
1. Rococo Slides for the Website January 2012.ppt
2. Canova Cupid and Psyche for the Website January 2012.ppt
3. Genre Paintings Hogarth_ Wright_ Greuze_ Fuseli.ppt
4. Neoclassical and Romantic Portraits Jan 2012.ppt
5. Neoclassicism and History Painting.ppt\
6. Palladio and Jefferson and Boyle.ppt

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Complete the notes on chapters 12 and 23 of Stokstad.
 

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Major exam on Japanese Art, Chinese Art, Indian Art, Bosch and Bruegel and Baroque art.

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See below. Posted at 8:00 p.m. Sunday night.

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Complete the "worksheet" you were given (see below) -- " Writing About Works of Art -- Baroque" -- electronic file called "Writing About Art notes BAROQUE" below.
 
Prepare for a slide identificaiton quiz on Japanese Art, Chinese Art, Indian Art, Barqoue and Bosch and Bruegel.
 
Big, big, big test on Monday!

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There will be an exam on Japanese Art, Chinese Art, Indian Art, Bosch and Bruegel and Baroque art on 11 February 2013.
 
Homework this weekend:
 
  1. Take Cornell notes on "1600-1700: The Baroque" -- 
 
 
  1. Take Cornell notes on either Schama's documentary about Rembrandt or on the Night Watch (by Rembrandt). Choose one--if you do both the extra one will be extra credit.
 
Simon Schama’s The Power of Art: Rembrandt parts 1-4
 
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57bwTm3q9aI&edufilter=-UYcvQGRLktRabtXL3Eq1w
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJYlzyNQjpc&edufilter=-UYcvQGRLktRabtXL3Eq1w
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfSJpo28m6k&edufilter=-UYcvQGRLktRabtXL3Eq1w
 
 
Private Life of a Masterpiece: Night Watch parts 1-4
 
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_hDgDyxDW8&edufilter=-UYcvQGRLktRabtXL3Eq1w
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGkhRsqXwHE&edufilter=-UYcvQGRLktRabtXL3Eq1w
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN7TMiUT2MU&edufilter=-UYcvQGRLktRabtXL3Eq1w
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUtMA8pX6tM&edufilter=-UYcvQGRLktRabtXL3Eq1w

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You should be done reading the chapter by now.
Now you must start learning the images.
 
Learn all the Caravaggio, Vermeer, and Velasquez works.
Review the other three Baroque art slide shows. You should know the major works--like Rigaud's portrait of King Louis XIV.
 
You must watch
  1. Rembrandt, The Three Crosses, 1653 and take a sheet of Cornell notes
  2. Rembrandt's Self-Portraits and take a sheet of Cornell notes
You will have two separate pages of notes to turn in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PA0T4_KYC0&list=PLB56EEA2DAB1F1CD6&edufilter... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LisBmGk1koY&list=PLB56EEA2DAB1F1CD6&edufilter...

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Expect a slide identification quiz.
In class we will look closely at Velasquez and Vermeer and Rembrandt (if there is time...Rembrandt will be last).
 
So...make sure that you have read these sections carefully.
 
Also--complete the handout. This handout about Caravaggio will help you to practice writing about works of art in a very focused way.

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Keep workng your way through the Baroque...review the slides--finsih reading the chapter.
Start to learn the images--titles, artists, dates.
 
Don't forget to watch the SmartHistory videos--take notes and earn extra credit points.
Give each set of notes a proper title--even if it is only 4 minutes--and take Cornell notes...
 
 

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Read chapter nineteen--the Barqoue--in Stokstad...complete the notes....pages and pages of them....
Try to complete about 70% of the work....
Make sure you go to YouTube and search under "Smarthistory at the Khan Academy" --then specifically look under  "1600-1700: The Baroque" --there are alot of lectures.
Use the lectures to supplement your understanding--should I give extra credit if you take notes while you watch a lecture--I just might if you use a clear title and take solid Cornell notes...
http://www.youtube.com/course?list=ECB56EEA2DAB1F1CD6&edufilter=-UYcvQGRLktR...

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Students who are not going to the art museum MUST report to the library and sign in--so far, only Lucas Dodd, Magdaleno Mora, Alexis Castillo, Ana Reyes, and Celina Foinesca are not going.
 
Let me know if you are planning on going but just forghot to turn in your permission slip! :)
Email me...I tend to stress.

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Read about Bruegel and Bosch and El Greco for class on Thursday.
Complete the notes....take note son your own about El Greco....

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Read chapters 9 and 20 in Stokstad-- Indian Art.
Read pages 100-115 in Glancey.
 
Use the notes to guide you so that you don't become overwhelmed by all the text.
I would read Glancey first to give you an overview--pay attention especially to stupas and the Taj Mahal. These are both very important ideas architecturally....

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Make sure you have completed the notes for Chinese and Japanese art--I will check!!!
Make sure you study the slides --slides labeled--images you must learn.
I arranged the slides in order of importance.
 
Don't forget to check out the podcasts to improve adn expand and extend your knowledge!

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/

 

Supplement your knowledge of both Japan and China by listening to podcasts about the following items:

 

No. 34: you will learn about lacquer  (a medium) and the Han Dynasty

No. 41: you will learn about the Buddha

No. 50: you will learn about the Silk Road

No. 58: you will learn about how the Japanese make a cult of beauty

No. 55: you will learn about burial practices and the Tang Dynasty

No. 64: you will learn about porcelain

No. 93: you will learn about Japanese prints and the opening of Japan to Europe in 1853

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/

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Read chapters 10, 11, 21, 22 in Stokstad--Chinese and Japanese Art.
Focus your reading by paying attention to where the notes direct you.

Read pages 100-109 in Glancey.



The Great Wave--
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/MAPlqOEHRsmI1awIHQzRSQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPmED0GbYUs http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/d8fPFQXIQGyPRBpN6CsPIw

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Read pages 684-700 in Stokstad.
Complete the notes you were given on The Classical Phase (see below) and take your own notes on the big three: Michelangelo, Raphael, and da Vinci.
Read Stokstad pages 688-700 to study up on these three MAJOR artists or watch as many of the SmartHistory videos as you can stomach. Scroll down the list at
and look for Michelangelo, Raphael, and da Vinci in the title of the video.

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In class on Thursday, there will not be a quiz.
In class on Thursday, Ms. Bulkley will present The Last Supper.
In class on Thursday, I will finish presenting Donatello.
In class on Thursday, we will discuss Renaissance architecture.
 
Try to get all those notes that were assigned so long ago done but you blew off because you know I am a pushover....if you don't get them done, there will be other ways to get the points--but you must MASTER the knowledge! I care about that most of all.
 
Don't stress. Come. Let's learn as much as we can. I feel like we are all EXHAUSTED.
 
Saturday Scholars on 15 December 2012--we will have a final examination run through and a lot of extra credit.
If you have ten extra minutes--work on learning your slides.

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Be prepared to "do" your presentation--assume the next five or six students will present.
  • Your presentation will go in your test grade. You will know what you are responsible for because you will see you name on the title slide. This presentation is worth 100 points.
  • You need to help your audience truly see this work of art. So take the time to patiently and slowly guide their eye through the work by pointing out visual details that you now notice easily precisely because you have studied and prepared this work of art.
 

In your presentation you must discuss these issues:

    1. patronage (who commissioned the work?)
    2. the intended audience
    3. the intended function of the work
    4. the content of the work
    5. whether you can situate the work in a larger movement? which one? why?
    6. what medium has the artist used to create this work of art?
    7. what you notice about the depiction of perspective or space?
You must be able to sum up your short lecture with an articulate assertion that begins, “This work of art is significant because…..”
 
 
 
Make sure that you have completed all the notes on architecture--see below.
 
 
 
Review the slides and notes about Donatello and Ghiberti and about the student presentations. Yep....there will be quizzes...and the quizzes will have review elements in them--think van der Weyden and your good friend, Saint Ursula, painted by her meticulous buddy--Hans Memling!

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Finish reading chapter seventeen in Stokstad--pages 649-666. A lot of the content on these pages is about architecture--so you might want to read pages 66-77 in Glancey first so that you will have an overview.
You need to start reading chapter eighteen in Stokstad--pages 684 to 703 and 727-728.These pages focus on artists whose names you already know.
I have posted quite a few videos below as well. You may do better watching first and reading the text second.
 
Review all the slides that relate to the Early Renaissance. You need to start learning names and titles.
 
Don't get overwhelmed by all the files below. Yes, there is a lot of material to master but just work on it bit by bit. Many of the slide files are big because there are so many close ups and detail slides.
 
About 30-40% of the AP Art History exam focuses on the Renaissance--so we need to make sure that we master chapters 17 & 18 in Stokstad.
 
 
Renaissance Architecture
Brunelleschi's Dome—Rick Steves (two minutes)

Brunelleschi's Dome—SmartHistory (six minutes)

Brunelleschi, Old Sacristy, San Lorenzo— SmartHistory (five minutes)

Brunelleschi, Pazzi Chapel, Santa Croce— SmartHistory (four minutes)
Brunelleschi's Santo Spirito--— SmartHistory (four minutes)

Linear Perspective: Brunelleschi's Experiment— SmartHistory (five minutes)
 
Renaissance Sculpture
Donatello’s David— SmartHistory (eight minutes)

Donatello’s St. Mark— SmartHistory (six minutes)

Michelangelo's David—Rick Steves (two minutes)

Brunelleschi & Ghiberti, Sacrifice of Isaac, competition panels— SmartHistory (six minutes)

Michelangelo, Pietà— SmartHistory (four minutes)
 
Renaissance Painting
Piero della Francesca, Portrait of Montefeltro and Sforza— SmartHistory (six minutes)
 
Masaccio, Expulsion of Adam and Eve, Brancacci Chapel— SmartHistory (six minutes)
 
Masaccio, The Tribute Money, Brancacci Chapel — SmartHistory (eight minutes)

Botticelli, La Primavera— SmartHistory (five minutes)

Botticelli, The Birth of Venus— SmartHistory (four minutes)

Bellini, Saint Francis In Ecstasy— SmartHistory (five minutes)



**This video may make you nuts or you may love it.
Michelangelo, Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel— SmartHistory (twenty-two minutes)
 
Inside Sistine Chapel on 500th anniversary—CNN (three minutes)
 
SmartHistory Videos: 1500-1600: End of the Renaissance & the Reformation – for a list of forty plus videos, go to….

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Read pages 666-681 in Stokstad--we will leave architecture and sculpture behind for a little bit and stick with painting.
Read carefully--we will complete the notes in class.
 
Review the slides and notes from Tuesday's class very methodically.
Augument or increase your knowledge by watching the videos.
 
The process of engraving:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQvghHs15hA
Robert Campin's Merode Altarpiece:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdDzs70Txjs
Roger van der Weyden's Deposition: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLf_oAkngP4
Saint Ursula: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEv7Mmx1V4w&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQvghHs15hA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdDzs70Txjs

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Read pages 628-649 in Stokstad--read these pages thoughtfully--NO NOTES NECESSARY--I will have notes prepared for you to work on in class. No quiz on Tuesday.
 
Art History light this weekend.
 

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Review the notes we started. Expect that I will quiz you on both Duccio and the ideas presented in the notes--especially the characteristics of the Gothic Style and the influence of Byzantine artists and the innovations of Giotto.
 
See the attached slides.
 
Memorize the different types of Christ.
Review the Duccio slides--know the titles.
 
In Stokstad, read pages 597-600 (Pisano and Florence) and pages 614-628 (perspective and the Limbourg Brothers).
 
Linear Perspective: Brunelleschi's Experiment
 
Understanding Linear Perspective
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on2FKHDsaCM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkNMM8uiMww

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Study Duccio and Lorenzetti and Siena for class on Friday--read anything and everything that relates to these topics in Stokstad. (I would start with the index to locate myself...)
Take notes!
 
Supplement the text--or even begin--by watching these videos.
 
Duccio's Maesta in Siena
 
Art: Duccio, Martini, and Lorenzetti
 
Palio Siena Luglio 2008 (4 minutes--this video is of a horse race--yes, Mr. Keller and I went--I will show you the picture on my wall....)
 
Siena: One of Italy's Great Hill Towns (Rick Steves--good succint information)
 
Siena Italy
(This one is moody but has great images!-- only 3 minutes)
Siena Horse Blessed Church before the Palio
(Before a horse runs the Palio race, he is blessed in the neighborhood church--the horse goes inside the church! I saw this in person, and I wept through the whole thing--it seemed so St. Fracis of Asissi to me...)
 
 
 
Feel free to check out the slides as well.

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Master (study, learn, memorize) Giotto and The Arena Chapel at Padua for the Scrovegni family
(c. 1304-1313) frescos. Learn titles. Be able to discuss the three innovations whichGiotto introduces in the frescos at the Arena Chapel--be able to link these innovations to visual evidence.
 
In short: study--study your notes and study the slides and watch the YouTube videos again. Pay attention to the academic language which is used and which you need to imitate.
 
 
Michelangelo's fresco painting technique—a demonstration from a NOVA episode.
 
Gold-ground panel painting-a demonstration
 
A Comparison of Giotto and Cimabue
 
Giotto The Ognissanti Madonna (Virgin and Child Enthroned)

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Work on the notes for Giotto and Cimabue (two separate sets--one for fresco and one for painting).
Read the corresponding parts in Stokstad pages 601-612.
Duccio is extremely important, but he will have his own "Siena" day with the Lorenzetti brothers.
 
See below for electronic copies.
 
Watch this video on YouTube about Giotto's Lamentation
 
 
Each video is less than 10 minutes long.
 
Test your knowledge of Gothic Architecture with the quiz file below!
 
In class on Tuesday, 23 October 2012...
 
We reviewed the slides on Gothic Architecture (see below).
We worked on "Thinking About Gothic Architecture" notes and" Romanesque versus Gothic: A Review" notes.
 
We watched these videos on Gothic Architecture--

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Start working on Stokstad chapter sixteen -- Gothic Art.
Read Glancey pages 52-65 for a wonderful overview with lots and lots of pictures.
 
Work on the notes that I handed out in class. You are getting background so that you can start to internalize the incredible "shift" that Gothic Art represents.
 
 

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Rest.
Think about engaged columnettes.....

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Essay Test tomorrow!!!
Short Answers and Loooooonnnnnng Comparisons.
Use the already posted slides to study.
Anything on written down (typed) handouts is fair game.

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Slide Identification Final Examination on Monday for Chapters 7, 14, and 15--Early Christian, Jewish and Byzantine Art, Early Medieval, and Romanesque.
 
See below for
Review -- Questions about Images file and Works of Art You Must Know file.
 
The two versions of slides you must know are just in different powerpoint versions--one is older...in case anyone has an old computer like me!!
 
(I was very, very proud of all of you on Thursday! You seemed like art historians! Just glorious!)

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Complete the notes on the Bayeux Tapestry.
Read the handouts.
Study the slides from class.
LEARN THE ARCHITECTURAL TERMS.
 
Study the diagrams on pages 521, 525, 535, 538, and 540.
1. aisle
2. ambulatory
3. apse
4. arcade
5. baldachin
6. basilica
7. blind arcade
8. buttresses
9. campanile
10. chapels
11. choir
12. clerestory
13. cloister
14. corbels
15. crenellated
16. crossing
17. cruciform
18. fresco
19. gallery
20. glazing
21. jamb
22. rotunda
23. lintel
24. nave
25. piers
26. portal
27. ribs
28. sanctuary
29. spandrel
30. string courses
31. transept
32. trumeau
33. tympanum
34. vaulting
35. westwork

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Start reading chapter fifteen in Stokstad: Romanesque Art.
Read pages 44-55 in Glancey for a nice overview with pretty pictures.
 
See below for the assignment sheet.
You are required to prepare the "Reliquaries and Pilgrimages" notes for class on Friday.
 
I would start trying to memorize all those architectural terms you need to learn.

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Wednesday is the last day we will spend on Early Medieval.
On Wednesday night, you will start the chapter on Romanesque Art.
 
Review the Magdeburg Ivory slides for Wednesday's class. There will be a very short individual quiz.
I have included the slides I showed in class as well as slides you need to learn.
 
In class on Wednesday we will discuss the Gero Crucifix and we will discuss Early Medieval Architecture and Monasteries.
Finish reading the ENTIRE chapter if you have not already done so...it is a short chapter.
 
I have also attached a fairly random set of notes about odd and ends that are important to us...a sort of accumulation of concepts that you want to review and make sure that you can easily discuss or answer. I have set it up "Cornell Notes" style for all the little avidistas in the audience...I made copies so stop by if you want one....they are on top of my desk..take one if I am not there.... :)

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I am so sorry I forgot to post the homework for Thursday....I have trained you so well and I let you down.
That said...here is the work I expect you to accomplish for Monday's class.
 
Complete the notes on monks and monasteries--you will probably need to next chapter...see pages 520-521. But mostly these notes are already "done"--you just need to learn all the stuff.
 
Complete the notes on crosses.
 
Read pages 42-43 in Glancey--there is a little bit about monks and monasteries.
 
 
Review the slides about Bishop Bernward's doors--expect a quiz with a few probing questions.
Review the slides labeled slides you need to learn--these will form the basis of a slide id quiz--title mostly--dates are extra credit.
 
Extra Credit:
 
Watch The Dark Ages on the History Channel --streams live on Netflix and probably on the History Channel website. Take notes. Get credit for the notes and for watching!
 
Watch The Name of the Rose --but ONLY if it is okay with your parents that you watch an "R" movie.
There is violence and short scene of nudity. This movie does a wonderful job of giving the viewer a feel for monks and monasteries as well as for the Early Medieval Period--also known as the dark ages....to get the credit you just need to come and tell me everything you realized about monks and monasteries as well as for the Early Medieval Periodfrom watching the movie...
 
I also have included some YouTube web addresses (is that how you say it?) that you might want to review to help you "learn" the material--sometimes watching is easier than reading.
I also included some cool websites.
 
Videos
Making Manuscripts

 
The Production of Medieval Manuscripts
 
The Book of Kells: The Pages of History
 
Illuminated Manuscripts ("Nowhere Man" by the Beatles)
 
Mary's Cathedral and St Michael's Church at Hildesheim (UNESCO/NHK)
 
The Cloisters Museum and Gardens: Behind the Scenes with the Director
 
Websites
Utrecht Psalter website with facsimile (in English)
 
Medieval Books at the Getty Museum
 
The Digital Scriptorium
 
And...get ready...we are goign to look at the Magdeburg Ivories on Monday--if you thought I was excited by Bishop Bernward's doors--you haven't seen anything yet!!! :)

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Finish reading about Early Christian, Jewish, and Byzantine Art.
Review the slides we looked at in class.
 
Completre the notes on the four buildings.
Tuesday will be our last day with Early Christian, Jewish, and Byzantine Art.
 
We will start discussing chapter fourteen--Early Medieval Art on Thursday, 27 September 2012.
See below for "stuff!"
 
Here is the assignment that is coming...in case you are bored this weekend! :)
 
AP Art History: Early Medieval Art
You are responsible for images 14-1, 14-4, 14-9, 14-15, 14-16, 14-18, 14-22, 14-23, 14-24, 14-25, 14-26, 14-27, 14-28, 14-30, 14-29.
 
These sections (headings) matter most:
• The Middle Ages
• The British Isles and Scandinavia
• Carolingian Europe
• Scandinavia: The Vikings
• Ottonian Europe
  1. You are responsible for ALL terms in bold.
  2. Do not worry about page 487: The Northern Deities. Read it, but just for fun. Do not memorize.
  3. Study map on page 486 carefully.
  4. Read page 490 The Medieval Scriptorium carefully.
  5. Read 508-509 but do not get worried about memorizing it. Just read it over and think about it.
  6. Read 513 but do not get worried about memorizing it. Just read it over and think about it.

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Read pages 36-41 in Glancey. Take notes.
Use Stokstad (chapter 7) to complete the notes on "Big Ideas" in Early Christian, Jewish, and Byzantine Art.

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See below for the slides you must memorize.
 
The test will be slide identifications (title and architect or sculptor with date as extra credit); short answers (think two or three sentence answers) and comparisons. One will be architecture and one will be sculpture (which includes relief). I will probably focus the comparisons on the Parthenon and the Pantheon and the other on issues of power as exemplified or embodied by scultpure. For me, "probably" means..."I will."  :)
 
 
Check back on this site for extra questions as I think of them....
I am currently writing the short answer questions in my head...I will probably post some of the short answer questions before Monday morning.

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Make sure that you have finsihed craefully reading about the Romans. In class we will have a mini-exam which will be a preview of sorts of the exam that is coming on Monday. You can use your notes. You will have a partner.

Think of Thursday's class as active studying with a debrief. I am going to craft some very difficult questions--the kind of questions you will face on the AP exam.

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Keep reading the next chapter in Stokstad: chapter six-- Etruscan and Roman Art
Take notes—of course—on the following pages for Friday, 7 September 2012: Stokstad, pages 246-273

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Start reading the next chapter in Stokstad: chapter six-- Etruscan and Roman Art
Take notes—of course—on the following pages for Wednesday, 5 September 2012: Stokstad, pages 224-245 and Glancey pages 30-35.
 
 
• Due Friday, 7 September 2012: Stokstad, pages 246-273
• Due Tuesday, 11 September 2012: Stokstad, pages 274-286
 
Study the posted slides.
 
Listen:
A History of the World in 100 Objects: No. 35: Head of Augustus
 
Extra Credit Documentary:
Rome: Engineering an Empire 94 minutes
Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire 4 discs
 
Test on Stokstad: chapter six-- Etruscan and Roman Art on Thursday, 13 September 2012

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Your first test! Stokstad chapter five: the Art of Ancient Greece.
There will be a slide identification component; a few comparisons; and a short essay-type response.
We will discuss on Wednesday.
Let's see how you do!

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For Wednesday's class, you will read about vase painting--there are not many pages at all!
Take notes please.
 
Stokstad: pages 159-160 (stop at metal sculpture); pages 172-177; pages 183-184 (basically one paragraph!)
Be able to tell the difference between an amphora and a krater--hint: how wide is the mouth of the vessel. (A krater vessel has a mouth as wide as a crater on the moon!)
Read the bit about "Greek Painted Vases" on page 173 carefully--I love to ask about technique. For example, what did new developments in the hollow-casting of bronze allow scluptors to do?
Or for example, what is the most important element when creating painted vases?
Why did the tempera not last to modern times?
How did the vase painters get the white lines on the black figures?
 
Start learning the slides.
You will need to start studying the images and their significance to be ready for the test on Friday.

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Monday's class is about Ancient Greek Sculpture--both freestanding and architectural.

As you read the sections that I will list below--pay attention to 1. the purpose of the sculpture, 2. how context (or the situation in which the sculpture is placed) affects the final form, and 3. how the idealized human form changes (albeit slightly).
 
Stokstad: read pages 165-171; 178-183; 195-197; 202-206; and 212-220.
Don't despair--there are LOTS of big pictures.
Take notes! But before you takes notes--start writing "stuff" down on paper--, I would check out the notes section of the powerpoint slides. I have tried to support you by condensing key ideas.

Remember Pheidias and Kallikrates and Iktinos --these are the three most important names vis-a-vis Ancient Greek Architecture.

In sculpture you must know Polykleitos, Myron, Praxiteles, and Lysippos.

Know what kourai are-- and pay attention to what the body does in space.
Know why Aphrodite of Knidos is shocking! 
A prize (not a new car) to the student who can guess correctly my favorite sculpture and the student who can guess which sculpture makes me giggle the hardest.
 
Review the slides on architecture--you need to learn them for Friday's test (31 August 2012).
Study the slides marked for Monday, 27 August 2012.



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1. Review your notes from class on Tuesday, 21 August 2012.
2. Review the slides we looked at in class. Be prepared for a simple quiz at the start of class on Wednesday on ideas like line or color or composition. (Don't be nervous....we have to start somewhere!)
 
3. MINIMUM REQUIRED: For Thursday's class you must read and takes notes on...
First read, Glancey, pages 26-29 (it is easy with lots of pictures)
Then start on Stokstad...
Stokstad, pages 156-157 (How is a sanctuary situated in a hillside?)
Stokstad, pages 162-166 (learn the terms listed below)
Stokstad, pages 185-189
Stokstad, pages 199-202 (stop before "Sculpture")
Stokstad, pages 210-212 (Stop before "Sculpture")
Review the slides marked Slides to Learn for Class on Thursday, 23 August 2012.
 
Terms You Must Know (Be able to point to the term on an image...)
  1. caryatid
  2. portico
  3. cella
  4. colonnade
  5. column
  6. stylobate
  7. triglyph
  8. volute
  9. shaft
  10. base
  11. capital
  12. acanthus leaf
  13. dentil
  14. frieze
  15. pediment
  16. entabulature
 
 
In general....what you need to work on....
Stokstad Chapter 5: Art of Ancient Greece and Glancey pages 24-29
Study the posted slides about ancient Greece.
Listen: A History of the World in 100 Objects: No. 27: Parthenon sculpture: Centaur and Lapith
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/about/british-museum-objects/
Extra Credit Documentary:
Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Nova: The Secrets of the Parthenon Watch at www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/
Test on Friday, 31 August 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/about/british-museum-objects/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/

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