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What explanations have been proffered for the nudity of the bronze david?

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Test #2, Essay Questions. Submit through Turnitin. Write in your own words. Keep to the point of the essay or question. You do not need to write everything you’ve learned! Please submit as a Word document.
Remember: If you lift passages from the textbook or any other text, paper, article or source without saying so and placing the passage in quotations marks, you are plagiarizing.
Tripartite Comparison-Contrast Essay
Write an essay charting the developments in early Italian Renaissance art by writing a comparison-contrast essay of (at least) three works by Giotto, Masaccio, and/or and Fra Angelico or Fra Filippo Lippi. Two suggestions:
— Giotto, “The Betrayal” (“Kiss of Judas”), the “Lamentation,” or the “Meeting at the Golden Gate”; Masaccio, the “Tribute Money” and/or “St. Peter Healing with His Shadow” and/or Masolino, “Healing of the Lame Man and the Raising of Tabitha”; Fra Angelico, “Descent from the Cross” and/or Fra Filippo Lippi, “The Feast of Herod”.b
— Giotto, “Madonna and Child Enthroned (Ognissanti Madonna)”; Masaccio, “Madonna and Child Enthroned (Pisa Poliptych)”; Fra Angelico, “Madonna and Child Enthroned (San Marco Altarpiece)”; and/or Fra Filippo Lippi, “Madonna and Child with the Birth of the Virgin and the Meeting of Joachim and Anna”.
30 points
Answer one of the following:
Answerboth parts of this short essay. A. Describe and and explain the changes that occur in representations of the Nativity between Trecento and the early early Quattrocento (such as differences in renderings of the subject Giotto and Gentile da Fabriano). What are the reasons for these changes? Cite two examples to illustrate your points (Supply artist, title, date). B. From here, discuss the origins and meaning of Filippo Lippi’s Madonna Adoring her Child (The Adoration of the Infant Jesus). Provide date and patron. Your answer should include explanation of the presence of St. John the Baptist and St. Romuald and the symbolism of the garden, the axe, and the forest with chopped‑down trees.
Discuss the subject of the Annunciation and its iconography in the works of Lorenzo Ghiberti, Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo Lippi, and Donatello. What are the elements usually found in treatments of this subject? How is Mary usually depicted and why? What is the significance of the garden often seen in Florentine representations of the subject?
15 points
What are the differences between Lorenzo Ghiberti’s first and second sets of Doors for the Florence Baptistery (the North Doors and the “Gates of Paradise”) Discuss and explain the differences in format, style, and narrative treatment. You might consider what was gained and/or lost by the change of relief shape from quatrefoil to square (and why, perhaps, was this change made)? How would you account for the change in narrative treatment? Choose two panels, one from each door and discuss them with respect to Ghiberti’s aesthetic concerns and artistic influences and development. Follow this with a brief account of your own critical assessment of the differences between the style and narrative treatment in the panels of the two Doors—the strengths and art historical significance of each. What is your own preference (if you have one) and your reasons for it?
15 points
Answer each of the following:
A) What is the term for the ancient type (depiction) of Venus that served as the model for Masaccio’s depiction of Eve in the Brancacci Chapel, Florence?
B) Given the fresco’s subject and the text from The Book of Genesis, why is this an especially appropriate pictorial quotation? C) Given Eve’s pose, coupled with the proportions Masaccio gives to the figures of both Adam and Eve in this fresco, what does this suggest about his artistic influences and the culture of early fifteenth-century Florence?
D) In his essay on the Brancacci Chapel, Robert Baldwin offers a different interpretation of Masaccio’s depiction of Adam and Eve, particularly that of Eve, placing the representation in the social context of women in the Renaissance. Briefly summarize and critically assess his arguments.
15 points
What are the differing circumstances of the commission of Donatello’s two sculptures of the Biblical figure, David? Provide details regarding the patrons of the first and second versions, and for each, date, place for which the sculpture was intended and where it was installed. Then discuss the meaning of this biblical figures with respect to its religious, political and cultural significance in Renaissance Florence. What explanations have been proffered for the nudity of the bronze David?
10 points Answer one of the following:
Compare and contrast the choir stalls by Luca della Robbia and Donatello. For where were they made and when? In what ways does the design and carving of Donatello’s Cantoria differ from that of Lucca? What might these two so dramatically different treatments of the same “subject” suggest about Renaissance art and artistic personality?
Discuss the work of Fa Filippo Lippi and his artistic influences. How does his style change from the late 1430s and 40’s to the 1450s? Use at least two examples to illustrate your points.
Compare and contrast the two altarpieces by Gentile da Fabriano and Fra Angelico commissioned by Palla Strozzi for the sacristy of Sta. Trinita. What do the differences in these two altarpieces suggest about taste in fifteenth-century Florence. What does the latter altarpiece, that by Fra Angelico, tell us about stylistic development in the 1430s and 40s?
10 points
Extra-Credit (Re)Read the discussion of Donatello’s bronze David and his Judith and Holofernes in the textbook (Hartt/Wilkins, Chapters 10 and 12). Then (re)read Sara Blake McHam’s essay on these two works (the link is on Canvas, in the module for Chapter 10).
Summarize and assess McHam’s argument in her essay on Donatello’s bronze David and the Judith and Holofernes. In what ways did it alter or enrich your critical/art historical understanding of these two works beyond the discussion in Hartt/Wilkins and/or your previous knowledge and assessment of these works?
Did you find McHam’s arguments convincing? Why or why not? Were there some arguments more compelling than others?[ If so, explain your reasoning as to why (and/or why not).
Did her essay enrich your understanding of the period, the artist and the works themselves? In what ways?
20 points

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