Metropolitan Museum of Art
Take a virtual trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (Metropolitan Museum of Art: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History). Navigate their site and search for an artifact from their Early Christian/Byzantine collections. Choose an item (or items if you want to explore more than one!), and write a short essay about […]
Does the work of art hold a mirror to its time and place? Or does it
4. The idea that there are distinctive aesthetic values (beauty, for example) by which works of art—or indeed, experience in general—should be judged is controversial. To what degree and in what terms can aesthetic judgments be regarded as “objective?” What are the alternatives to aesthetic valuation? How does the aesthetic justification stand up to these […]
Old Testament David Represented in Renaissance Art
Please write a 1750+ word paper tracing how the Old Testament figure of David is represented in Renaissance art. Begin your paper with a brief overview of the story of David, his symbolic connection to Florence in the Renaissance, and then compare the bronze figure of David by Donatello, with the later bronze David by […]
