School of the Arts McMaster
University
Renaissance Art
ART HIST 2I03, Term I, 2013
FORMAT INFORMATION FOR COURSE TEST AND ESSAY
TEST: (Course Value: 25% of
final grade)
The test (October 16, in class) will be 30
minutes in length with 2 questions at 15 minutes each. Each question will be
accompanied by a projected image of a work from the lectures and readings. Only
images featured in both will be presented. A study list including only those
images for which you are responsible will be posted here on this blog one week
in advance of the scheduled test date. You WILL be required to identify each of
the two presented works by artist's name, title and dat(es) as given in the readings.
I will be providing sample questions in class prior to the test so that you
will better understand what to expect. The total value of the test will be 50
points (25 points per question).
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT:
DUE NOVEMBER 8, 2013 (Course Value: 35% of final grade)
Note that your completed assignment must be
submitted in class (in hardcopy only) to the instructor NO LATER THAN November 8, 2010. Late papers will be deducted at the rate of 5% per day. Papers
submitted by email or any format other than hardcopy will not be accepted.
Late papers resulting from illness must be accompanied by a doctor’s note
(attached to your finished work). Late papers must be submitted to the School
of the Arts office (TSH 414) and stamped by the secretary in order to
receive credit. Please also note that papers may be subject to
submission for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the detection of
plagiarism. All submitted papers will be included as source documents in the
Turnitin.com reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism
of such papers.
The written assignment (due in class November 8) will consist of a short monographic research paper (5 full pages in length).
For this paper you will need to discuss one particular work. You may choose to
discuss a work (painting, sculpture, building, print, drawing) from an
accessible collection (such as the McMaster Museum of Art, Art Gallery of
Ontario, etc.) or one from a published source. Either way your selected work
MUST be of the Italian or northern European Renaissance. Your essay discussion
should offer the reader some insight into the significance of the work through
a particular interpretation of the visual evidence provided by the work and the
facts relating to the historic context in which it was produced and
appreciated. To make the essay more manageable and interesting it is advised
that you adopt a particular methodology for interpretation. For instance, if
you were working on Leonardo da Vinci's Mona
Lisa (this work is now off
limits because it is being used as an example here) you might adopt, as your
methodology, a psychoanalytic approach to interpreting the painting as a form
of self-portrait. In an effort to make a strong case for your interpretation
you would want to utilize the visual evidence of the painting to balance with
the facts relating to Leonardo and whatever useful ideas you might want to
adopt from psychoanalytic theory to give weight to your interpretation. In
another approach to the same painting you might look more specifically at
Leonardo's technique. How does Leonardo's unique handling of paint lend to the
striking qualities of the portrait proper? Here you might want to compare and
contrast with other portraits of the time to demonstrate Leonardo's unique
achievement.
The body of the text (your written
discussion) must be 5 pages in length (double-spaced, 12-point type). In
ADDITION to this you must include a cover page with title, course name and
number, instructor's name and due date. To this you must ALSO ADD
footnotes or endnotes and a bibliography. Reference images (figures) may be
included at the end of the paper. If you choose to use footnotes please bear in
mind that the actual discussion MUST STILL EQUAL 5 full written pages.
Citation methods must follow the Chicago
Style guidelines.
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