Early Renaissance Art

Early Renaissance Art

Take Home essay for the second exam due in class Nov. 6. There will be no in-class exam.

Length: 4 typewritten pages, or 1,000 words minimum

Write a biography of the artist and deeply analyze one work of art. RESEARCH required. Beyond the textbook, look for books and museum websites. Look up the artist in JSTOR database and look for any relevant articles. Deep analysis!

Artist: Sandro Botticelli

Work of Art: Venus and Mars

Analyze the work in context:

Style and technique

Iconography, symbolic content

Sources in literature or art

Patronage

Relation to science, humanism, poetry,

Political or social content