Below are two essay topics. Only ONE of the two essay topics will appear on your exam (prepare for both essay questions; at the exam, you will be asked to only write about one). The content of your essay should reflect material from course readings and class lectures.
This is a formal composition, so your written essay should include the following: an introductory statement and thesis (including a clear point-of-view); the content itself upon which your thesis rests (I anticipate this being 6 paragraphs long or more); a concluding and/or summary statement that furthers or expounds upon your findings or the points of your discussion.
Essay question #1:
Assess the close connections between the Florentine and Sienese narrative painting traditions as exemplified by Giotto and Duccio. Choose works discussed in class (for example, Giotto’s Lamentation at the Arena Chapel, Padua) and comment on renderings of biblical stories and characters in other media, in Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise at the Baptistery, Florence or in the sculpture of Ghiberti, Donatello, and Nanni di Banco. Discuss key works by five different artists and any related strategies or techniques. Be sure to include both mediums — painting and sculpture — in your essay to broaden your survey. Be as specific as possible for full point credit.
Essay question #2:
The emulation and adaptation of classical models were central to Renaissance art and thought in the 1400s and 1500s. Examine how sculpture was instrumental in the early development of the Italian Renaissance by drawing inspiration from ancient Roman sculpture. Also, consider how the focus on Byzantine icons and old artifacts created a climate for innovative and ambitious works in painting. You will need to discuss 5 to 6 different works; be sure to include at least one work by Brunelleschi, Andrea Mantegna, Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Be as specific as possible for full point credit.
Writing recommendations:
Consider this essay component of the exam an exercise in rhetoric and academic writing.
If possible, choose material that interests or moves you. Care.
Generally speaking, as a writer, use your medium to educate your reader. Content (facts and specifics) matters: reasonable content gives you credibility with your reader. Choose and use your words carefully, judiciously, and correctly: this earns your reader’s trust and respect. Flex your authorial “voice” or tone here or there, to inspire, delight, or enhance meaning: in other words, make your reader care.
Why not view this essay as a kind of performance? One way to do this is to imagine what you would like your readers to feel after they finish reading your essay. (In my own essay writing, I tell myself: “I hope to help educate my reader with good information and one or two insights, so that, afterwards, the reader thinks to himself/herself: ‘I’m so glad I read that!’”).
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