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Question: TMA 02 Part 1
Look closely at Book2, Plate 3.20, unknown weaver after painting by Rogier van der Weyden, The Justice of Trajan and Herkinbald.
How do its design, composition, and style relate to its original location and function, and the way it was made?
Answer: The tapestry was designed to represent the notion of law and functioned...
Details: Mark: Not available | Subject: Art History | Course: AA315 | Level: Degree | Year: 2nd/3rd | Document type: Essay* | Words: 505 References: Yes | Date written: March, 2008 | Date submitted: May 12, 2011 | Essay ID: 3710
Question: TMA 02 Part 2
Read ‘Pius II’s description of his cathedral in Pienza and its interior’ (Anthology, 2.4.5).
What does this document tell us about how outside influences were brought to bear on architectural styles in Renaissance Italy?
What are its strengths and weaknesses as a source?
Answer: Pius’s description of the cathedral is one of several accounts he gives...
Details: Mark: Not available | Subject: Art History | Course: AA315 | Level: Degree | Year: 2nd/3rd | Document type: Essay* | Words: 1006 References: Yes | Date written: March, 2008 | Date submitted: May 12, 2011 | Essay ID: 3711
Question: TMA 02 Part 3
Which was more influential upon the finished appearance of a work of art, the locality of its maker or the locality for which it was made?
Discuss, examining a range of artistic commissions for more than one region of Europe.
Answer: The key argument of this essay is that the locality of the...
Details: Mark: Not available | Subject: Art History | Course: AA315 | Level: Degree | Year: 2nd/3rd | Document type: Essay* | Words: 1495 References: Yes | Date written: March, 2008 | Date submitted: May 12, 2011 | Essay ID: 3712
Question: TMA 05
“It is perhaps enough to say that British paintings remained pictures in a relatively traditional sense” (Paul Wood, Book 4, p.44)
In what ways did the European avant-garde in the nineteenth century depart from this “relatively traditional sense” of the picture associated here with British art? Your answer should compare nineteenth century British painting with work produced in France during the same period.
Answer: “Avant-garde” was initially the name for advance guard of an army but,...
Details: Mark: Not available | Subject: Art History | Course: AA315 | Level: Degree | Year: 2nd/3rd | Document type: Essay* | Words: 2002 References: Yes | Date written: Not available | Date submitted: May 12, 2011 | Essay ID: 3714
Question: Compare and contrast the aims and reception of two exhibitions: Rabindranath Tagore’s paintings in 1930 and “The other story” in 1989.
In the light of this comparison, do you think that significant shifts in attitude towards cultural differences and art took place between 1930 and 1989.
Answer: The evaluation of the arts made by colonized people and their descendants...
Details: Mark: Not available | Subject: Art History | Course: AA315 | Level: Degree | Year: 2nd/3rd | Document type: Essay* | Words: 1902 References: Yes | Date written: Not available | Date submitted: May 12, 2011 | Essay ID: 3715
