Section 1. Answer this question:
1. How did Giorgio Vasari fundamentally change how artists and their work where perceived in Western Europe during the Renaissance? How did he see them? What impact did this have on how artists saw themselves in relation to society?
Section 2. Answer ONLY THREE of these questions (your choice) :
1. What is stained glass? How is it made?
2. Who are the bourgeoisie? What are their values? How did their patronage in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance impact how artists worked? How does all of this relate to the concept of humanism?
3. What is panel painting. Briefly summarize how a panel painting is made.
4. Consider the technical advancements made by artists and architects during the Renaissance (i.e., oil painting, linear perspective, print making, printing press, new building techniques, etc). Select two of these advancements and describe them and the impact they had on how artists and architects worked.
5. What is atmospheric perceptive? How does it differ from linear perspective? Cite an example.
6. What is the Baroque? How does the art and architecture of this period differ from that done during the High Renaissance? Cite an example.
7. What impact did the Counter-Reformation and its policies have on the visual arts? Cite an example.
8. What is Neoclassicism in visual art? How does it relate to the values of the Enlightenment? Cite an example.
9. What are Romanticism and Realism? How do they rebel against the academic styles of earlier periods (i.e., Neoclassicism)? Cite an example.
10. What is photography? How did early photography impact the practice of painting
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