Quiz #1
Friday, September 19
Below are 9 images from which I will select the five slide identifications:
The Bayeux Tapestry
Normandy, France
c. 1086
Herrad of Landsberg
Hortus Deliciarum
After 1170
Claricia
German Psalter from Augsburg
c. 1200
Catherine of Bologna
Virgin and the Christ Child
c. 1440s
Sofonisba Anguissola
Self-Portrait
1561
Giorgione
Portrait of a Young Woman (Laura)
1506
Lavinia Fontana
Consecration to the Virgin
1599
Artemisia Gentileschi
Susanna and the Elders
1610
Levina Teerlinc
Princess Elizabeth I
c. 1550s
Below are three questions from which I will choose the one essay question:
- Define the Male Gaze, and explain how it was depicted in the work of many male artists of the Renaissance. Name one female artist you have studied and describe something she did in order to avoid the Male Gaze in her work.
- What were some of the factors in Renaissance Bologna that contributed to more liberal opportunities for Bolognese women than those in Florence. Name one female artist from Bologna and describe how her work demonstrates these greater freedoms.
- There was a fundamental shift in the gender roles of women from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. What changes occurred and what were the factors that contributed to this shift? What obstacles did these changes create for women artists?
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