ARTS 1303 Survey of Art: Cave Art to Medieval
Dr. Koontz
Fall 2022 Course Schedule
Note: Exams appear in Blackboard only when they are open. They will
not be visible earlier. Essay turnitin links will appear on Blackboard
about a week before the essays are due.
Get to know your assigned IA via her channel and stay current on the workshops and other
activities that are available to you.
Important: Do all activities (reading, videos, etc.) each week before coming to class. For
technical exam help, contact University of Houston Blackboard help (google that phrase).
You will spend 4-6 hours a week on this course (of which 3 are in class). If you cannot commit
to spending that time consistently, every week, then you should consider dropping the course.
See syllabus for information on missed Weekly Exams.
Check with UH bookstore for e-book access.
NOTE 1: I cannot help you with textbook access. If you are having problems, first consult with
other students in the “Course Questions” channel and if that doesn’t work, contact the UH
Bookstore.
How do I know when things are due? Follow the weekly course schedule. All assignments
have a DUE line with the assignment title and where to turn it in below, in your Weekly Course
Schedule, on the week they are due. In your personal calendar on your phone or similar, you
may want to mark the weeks on your calendar so you can synchronize easily. You have a
Weekly Exam every week, available from Thursday-Sunday (you must finish the last test
attempt before 11:58 PM). Count on that.
To stay up with multi-week assignments, make sure that you begin the project when your
schedule indicates to START and work consistently until it is due. The CONTINUE line will
remind you to stay with a project during the time you should be working on it.
Don’t try to download this schedule—it is a living document and I may have to adjust things as
we go (although I usually don’t change much).
CLASS MAJOR GRADED ACTIVITIES CHEAT SHEET (Smaller activities not noted, check
your Course Schedule every week)
EVERY WEEK
WEEKLY EXAM
FEB. 9-12
ESSAY #1
FEB. 23-26
Museum visit revisions
MAR. 2-5
MAJOR EXAM #1
MAR. 30-APR. 2
Essay #2 Rough
APR. 3-14
Peer Review with IA (check your IA schedule)
APR. 13-16
Essay #2 Final
APR. 27-30
MAJOR EXAM #2
--------------WEEKLY
SCHEDULE------------
Week 1 Looking and Writing
This week is the time to ask questions about the syllabus. Tip: Watch the "How to succeed"
video and go over the syllabus. If you still have questions, post them to the chat in the
Discussion General channel of our TEAMS. Don't write me an email—I have tons of those and
won't get to it.
DUE: Week 01 Exam (over the syllabus and course schedule).
This and all other exams are available Thursday-Sunday on the week they are due on
Blackboard. Count on having a Weekly Exam every Thursday-Sunday of the semester.
All Weekly Exams are timed. They are also open book and note—you are allowed to use
your text and notes but be forewarned that you won’t have much time to look things up.
As you read and take notes on videos, remember where to find that information to
succeed on your exam. All of you will suffer some technical glitches this semester. To
help you with this, **I allow you three tries at each exam** (including any tries that are
disturbed by technical glitches of whatever sort). This is in case you have technical
glitches on one or even two of your exam tries. I will take only the highest grade on the
exam. IMPORTANT: ALWAYS take your first attempt at the exam by Friday. For any
technical glitches, contact University of Houston Blackboard help (google that phrase).
1. WATCH: Basic use of Microsoft TEAMS for this course
2. See Essay #1 Instructions in your Class Materials folder. DO: Go to the OBJECT
CHOICE FORM on the Essay #1 Instructions page to indicate your research
object. See Week 2 for form due date.
3. WATCH: Describing an Object
4. WATCH: Formal Analysis
a. See Sample Description and Formal Analysis here
b. Going further: See more formal analysis here and in your Essay 1
Instructions below
5. DUE: Week One Exam on Blackboard
----------------------End of Week 1-------------------
Week 2 Art’s Beginnings
WATCH: We Start IA Office Hours/Workshop Program
WATCH: Introduction to Week 2
WATCH: Stonehenge as Sacred Space here.
WATCH: the video on the trilithons at Stonehenge by following this link:
<https://youtu.be/t10T-VSjSis>. Focus on the relationship with the solstice.
READ: Chapter 1. The Beginnings of Art (75,000 BCE-3,200 BCE)
DUE: Object Choice form found in the Essay #1 Instructions, due by Sunday
(end of Week 2) anytime.
DUE: Week 2 Exam on Blackboard (Available Thursday through Sunday this week)
Note on this and all Weekly Exams: All Weekly Exams will be Thursday-Sunday.
They will always be available on Blackboard in the Exams/Essays tab. As always, the
exam may contain some questions from the previous week's exam.
Best practice: note the questions that you aren't sure about as you take your
first and second attempts. Refer to your readings, videos, and other materials to
better answer the question if you should encounter it again on a later attempt
(you may or you may not—questions are randomized).
Test security does not allow us to go over the exam with you or to share
answers. If you have doubts about the questions you may have missed, see your
IA after the test period.
Keep in mind: These are low-stakes exams, worth about 3% each. Don't miss
them, but at the same time, don't obsess over these to the exclusion of your
research (see essay just below).
START: Essay #1 using the object you chose in the Object Choice Form. See Essay
#1 Instructions in your Class Materials folder.
START (Major Project): Preparation for Major Exam #1 (see Week 7 below):
Possible Essay Questions. You will get one of the three essay questions below on
Major Exam #1. Be prepared for all three. Note relevant material for each of these
questions in all your readings and other study materials. Remember, the Major Exam is
open book and you will be able to use all the notes you have accumulated. Limit your
answer to 750 words or less.
1. Using three specific artworks from your text, trace the history of naturalism in art
from cave paintings to Greek art. Describe and analyze the three works of art in
relation to your definition of naturalism.
2. Use three specific artworks that we have studied up to this point (buildings
included) to discuss how humans have created and used sacred space.
3. Using three specific artworks, how have artists and their patrons used art objects
to establish military and/or political power?
TIP: Using works from your "Focus Images" group for all these questions in both exams
may be more efficient—you have more information on these works and you have
already studied them in more depth.
Focus Images, Chapter 1
1. Figure 1.5. Left wall of the Hall of the Bulls in the cave at Lascaux, France, ca.
16,000-14,000 BCE. Largest bull 11’ 6” long.
2. Figure 1.10. Statuette or Figurine from Willendorf, Austria, (Venus of Willendorf),
ca. 24,000–22,000 BCE. Limestone, 4 1/4” high. Naturhistorisches Museum,
Vienna.
a. WATCH the video on the Venus of Willendorf here; do not worry about the
exams interspersed in the video—Microsoft Forms is unreliable in this
context and I do not count the exams in your grade.
3. Figure 1.12 Göbekli Tepe circular, semi-subterranean buildings with T-shaped
pillars and evidence for ritual feasting, c. 9000 BCE. Southeastern Turkey.
4. Figure 1.15. Aerial view of Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, England, ca. 2550–1600
BCE. Circle is 97' in diameter; trilithons 24' high.
5. Figure 1-16. Human skull modeled with plaster and with eyes inlaid with shells,
from Jericho, c. 8200–7500 BCE. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
NOTE: We no longer give extra credit for attending the IA workshops (you already
receive more credit because your grade will be better if you engage productively in the
workshop activities). Extra credit may be mentioned in some of the videos, but this is no
longer the case.
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Week 3 Mesopotamia (Early West Asia)
WATCH: Introduction to Week 3
READ: Chapter 3. Art of Mesopotamia and West Asia (5000-2000 BCE)
DUE: Week 3 Exam (Thursday-Sunday, Blackboard “Exams and Essays” tab). Read
your text chapter AND watch the assigned videos below before taking the exam.
REMEMBER THIS ABOUT WEEKLY EXAM: Recall that all weekly exams cover the
weekly readings and activities AND the previous week's materials.
CONTINUE: Gather evidence for your three Major Exam #1 questions as you
read and watch these videos. Mesopotamian art has strong examples of art that
communicates political power, for example. How do you do this? 1. Note the work of
art that you would use as an example; 2. Briefly describe in writing the specific elements
of the work of art that speak to the Major Exam 1 essay question—and be as specific as
you can here; 3. Keep all these examples in a handy place so you will have the raw
material to write a good major exam essay. Make sure you are collecting examples for
all three essay questions—you don't know which one you will get.
If you didn't do this for Week 2, as part of your review you should go back and note
at least one work that speaks to one of the questions, per the instructions above.
Naturalism is an important theme for Week 2 objects (that's a hint).
If you are having problems collecting examples for the Major Exam essay, you
should attend your IA's office hours and describe the specific problems you are having
(don't show up and say "I don't know how to do it." Be more specific).
CONTINUE: Essay #1 (using the object you chose in the Object Choice Form above.
See Essay #1 Instructions in your Class Materials folder). Take advantage of workshops
and open question hours of your IA to help shape your draft.
Focus Images
1. 3.3 Architectural plan of Eanna complex at Uruk, 3500-3100 BCE
a. WATCH: Temple Complex of Eanna
2. Figure 3.8 and 3.8a Cast and reconstruction drawing of the Uruk Vase, Iraq, ca.
3200–3000 BCE. Alabaster, 41 3/8 in. high. National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad.
a. WATCH: Uruk Vase
3. Figure 3.15 Head of an Akkadian Ruler, 2250-2220, 14 3/8 in. high. Iraq
Museum, Baghdad
4. Figure 3.16 Stele of Naram-Sin, set up at Sippar, Iraq, found at Susa, Iran, 2254–
2218 BCE. Pink sandstone, 6’ 7” high. Musée du Louvre, Paris.
a. WATCH: Comparison: Eannatum and Naram-Sin Steles
WATCH: Period Style How you can think about period style, and how you will be tested
on it.
Period Style Categories for Weekly Exams and Major Exam 1
i.
Prehistoric (anything from Chapter 1)
ii.
iii.
Early West Asian (anything from Chapter 3)
Ancient Egyptian (anything from Chapter 4)
iv.
Later West Asian (anything from Chapter 5)
v.
vi.
Archaic and Early Classic Greek (both from Chapter 13)
Classical Greek (anything from Chapter 14)
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Week 4 Egypt
**DUE: Essay #1, Thursday-Sunday anytime (see Turnitin link in Blackboard
“Exams and Essays” tab)**
WATCH: Introduction to Week 4
READ: Text, Chapter 4, Egyptian Art from the Predynastic Nile through the Old
Kingdom
WATCH: Palette of Narmer (and see focus image 4.3)
WATCH: Khafre and the Seated Scribe (and see focus images 4.14 and 4.18 below)
WATCH: Queen Tiye (later Ancient Egyptian period, but an important extension of the
tension between idealizing and naturalistic strands of Ancient Egyptian art)
WATCH: Narmer and Naram-Sin
CONTINUE: Gather evidence for your three Major Exam #1 questions as you read and
watch these videos.
DUE: Week 4 Exam (Thursday-Sunday, Blackboard “Exams and Essays” tab)
Focus Images
4.3 Both sides of the Narmer Palette, end of Dynasty 0, c. 3000 BCE. Excavated at
Hierakonpolis, in the sacred enclosure of Horus. Soft, dark gray-green graywacke, 251⁄4 in.
(64.14 cm) high. Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
4.5 Architectural drawing
of a typical Second or Third Dynasty mastaba tomb at Saqqara, built in stone. The ka statue of
the deceased is visible
in its small chamber (serdab). A vertical shaft links the mastaba superstructure to the
underground burial chamber.
4.14 Statue of Khafre as the enthroned king. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty, 2558-2532 BCE.
Diorite-anorthosite gneiss, 5 ft. 61⁄8 in. (1.68 m) high. Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
4.18 Seated statue of scribe. Found out of context in Saqqara, Egypt. Old Kingdom, Fifth
Dynasty, 2494–2345 BCE. Painted limestone, with inlaid eyes of rock crystal, calcite, and
magnesite mounted in copper, 1 ft. 91⁄8 in. (53.6 cm) high. Louvre Museum, Paris.
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Week 5 Later West Asia
We will do the weekly introduction in class from this point forward.
GO (Museum Visit Revisions): See MFAH experience under Week 6. This is due at the
end of Week 6, so go now! You might be too busy next week.
WATCH: Law Code of Hammurabi (Smarthistory)
WATCH: Hammurabi and Naram-Sin
WATCH: Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions (Smarthistory)
WATCH: Ashurbanipal Throne Room Relief
WATCH: The Palace Decoration of Ashurbanipal (British Museum)
READ: Chapter 5, Art of West Asian Empires
CONTINUE: Gather evidence for your three Major Exam #1 questions as you read and watch
these videos.
START: Research on Essay #2 (See Essay 2 Instructions in your Class Materials folder).
DUE: Week 5 Exam (Thursday-Sunday, Blackboard “Exams and Essays” tab)
Focus Images
5.2 Law stele of Hammurabi. c. 1760 bce. Originally installed in Babylon but excavated at Susa
(Iran). Black basalt, 7 ft. 45⁄8 in. (2.25 m) high. Louvre Museum, Paris
5.11 Orthostat from Throne Room (B) of Ashurnasirpal II in
his Northwest Palace at Kalhu
(Tell Nimrud, Iraq). 883–859 BCE. Gypsum, 763⁄4 inches (195 cm) high. British Museum,
London.
5.13 Part of a carved relief orthostat, showing the king killing a lion, from the North Palace of
Ashurbanipal, Nineveh, northern Iraq. c. 645–635 bce. Gypsum, dimensions not known. British
Museum, London.
5.20 Reliefs on the Apadana building at Persepolis, Eastern Staircase, depicting the delegations
of different peoples (here, from top: Bactrians, Lydians and Gandharans) from the empire
bringing gifts. Fars province, Iran.
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Week 6 Early Greece
GO (Museum Visit Revisions): Go to the MFAH and find your object. Bring a printout of the
description and analysis you recently turned in or have the file on your phone. You may want to
go back to the original web page you consulted to find the location of your object before you go.
First, take a selfie with your object. If a guard dissuades you from doing this, take a selfie
immediately outside the gallery with the object. Insert the selfie at the end of the paper you will
turn in below.
As you view your object, make notes on how you will revise the description and analysis
now that you have seen the actual object. Then, while you are still in front of the object, write a
paragraph on the specific things you noticed about your piece that you hadn’t noticed before—
things like the scale of the object (how could you know working only from a digital image?) and
the surface texture, as well as the true color and if appropriate its three-dimensionality.
Write all this up as a revised description and formal analysis of your object with all
additions/revisions made in red text (so your IA can see the additions easily) and turn the
document in directly to the appropriate folder in your IA Channel (NOT Blackboard) by Sunday
evening. Post any questions about this assignment to your Course Questions channel.
WATCH: Naturalism, Realism, Abstraction and Idealism
WATCH: The Classical Orders
Read: Chapter 13 Archaic and Early Classical Greece
DUE: Week 6 Exam
CONTINUE: Research and Writing on Essay #2 (See Essay 2 Instructions in your
Class Materials folder).
Focus Images
13.1 Temple of Hera I, c. 550 bce. Limestone covered in plaster. Poseidonia (modern Paestum),
Italy.
13.9a below left Peplos kore Akropolis, Athens, c. 530 bce. Marble with traces of original paint,
47 in. high. Akropolis Museum, Athens.
13.11 far left Kouros from Anavysos, Attica, c. 530 bce. Marble, 6 ft. 5 in. high. National
Archaeological Museum, Athens.
13.20 Statue of Zeus, found off Cape Artemision, Greece,
c. 460–450 bce. Bronze, 7 ft. high. National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
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Week 7 Art of Classical Greece—MAJOR EXAM #1
TAKE MAJOR EXAM #1 BEGINNING ON THURSDAY (THROUGH SUNDAY, THREE TRIES
PER USUAL).
WATCH: Parthenon (Smarthistory)
WATCH: Phidias, Parthenon Sculptures for the meaning and context of this work along
with many others from the Parthenon
WATCH: Polykelitos, Doryphoros and the ideal male nude
3-D MODEL: Doryphoros (Spear-Bearer)
Read: Ch. 14, 238-253
DUE: Major Exam #1 on Blackboard Thursday-Sunday (per usual). See "Major
Exams" in your syllabus. (Note: No Weekly Exam this week—all readings questions
normally seen on a Weekly Exam may appear on your Major Exam—make sure you
do your reading and other activities for this week before taking Major Exam #1).
You will receive your essay question in your IA's channel on TEAMS around 9AM on
Thursday. You have until Sunday at 11:59PM to upload the response to your
question to the link "Major Exam 01 Essay Question" in your "Exams and Essays"
tab in Blackboard. Limit your answer to 750 words or less.
Focus Images
14.3-6 Parthenon (Temple of Athena Parthenos), Akropolis, built 447-438 BCE and decorated
447–432 BCE. Athens, Greece.
14.7 Lapith Fighting a Centaur, Parthenon metope, south flank, 447–432 BCE, from the
Akropolis, Athens, Greece. Marble, 47 × 49 in. (1.19 × 1.25 m) British Museum, London.
14.19 Polykleitos of Argos, Doryphoros (Spear Bearer), Roman marble copy of a Greek bronze
of c. 450–440 bce. Museo Archaeologico Nazionale, Naples, Italy.
14.22 and 22a Woman bringing offerings to a tomb with a man (the deceased?) on the opposite
side of the grave stele. Athenian white-ground lekythos, c. 440 bce. Ceramic. National
Archaeological Museum, Athens, 1935.
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Week 8 Other than Europe: Art of the Americas,
600-1300
READ: Ch. 30, Art of the Americas, 497-512
DUE: Week 13 Exam (Thursday-Sunday, Blackboard “Exams and Essays” tab)
OPPORTUNITY: Extra Credit if you view the exhibition “Golden Worlds” at the MFAH
and complete the assignment as directed in “Extra Credit Museum” doc in your Class
Materials folder. Note the due date in that document—no lates.
Focus Images
30.1 Chocolate Vessel with Palace Scene, c. 600-900 CE, Ceramic, height 8 in. (20.3 cm).
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.
30.9 Colossal atlantids and other sculpture, Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico. Toltec, c. 900-1100. Stone,
height approximately 16 ft.
30.12 Pendant with bat deity or impersonator, from Tairona, Colombia, after 1000. Tumbaga,
height 5 ¼ in. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
START: Possible Essay Questions for Major Exam #2 (Week 15), (you will get one of these
three; have answers ready for all three):
1. Using three specific artworks from this section (chapters we have read in your text
after Major Exam 1--thus after Chapter 14), trace the history of naturalism in art from
later Ancient Greek art to Islamic and Christian art. Describe and analyze the three
works of art in relation to your definition of naturalism.
2. Use three specific artworks that we have studied in this section (buildings included) to
discuss how humans have created and used sacred space. You may use one nonEuropean example if you wish.
3. Using three specific artworks from this section, how have artists and their patrons
used art objects to establish military and/or political power? You may use one nonEuropean example if you wish.
TIP: Use the videos that treat the topics above. Remember, the Major Exam is open
book and you will be able to use all the notes you have accumulated on those videos
and elsewhere. Limit your answer to 750 words or less. Using works from your
"Focus Images" group for all these questions will be more efficient—you have more
information on these works and you have already studied them in more depth.
Week 9: Spring Break
Week 10 Later Greek
READ: Ch. 15, Late Classic Greek and Hellenistic Art: pp. 254-271
WATCH: Apollonius, Seated Boxer
WATCH: Dying Gaul and Ludovisi Gaul
WATCH: Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon
WATCH: Introduction to Researching your Object for Essay 2
CONTINUE: Research and writing on Essay #2 (See Instructions in your "Class
Materials" folder).
Focus Images
15.1 Aphrodite of Knidos, Roman copy after a marble statue of Praxiteles. Greek original c. 350
BCE. Marble, 6 ft. 9 in. high. Musei Vaticani, Rome.
15.17 Gigantomachy, Great Altar of Zeus, Pergamon, c. 180-160 BCE. Pergamon Museum,
Berlin, Germany.
15.21 Apollonius, Seated Boxer, from the Baths of Constantine, Rome, c. 100-50 BCE, Bronze,
4 ft. high.
DUE: Week 10 Exam (Thursday-Sunday, Blackboard “Exams and Essays” tab)
DUE (almost): ESSAY 2 ROUGH DRAFT DUE next week.
Week 11 The Rise of Rome
NO CLASS ON THURSDAY---Finish your Rough Draft and Turn it in!
READ: Chs. 19 and 20: pp. 320-345
WATCH: Augustus of Primaporta
WATCH: Ara Pacis Augustae
WATCH: Column of Trajan
DUE: Week 10 Exam (Thursday-Sunday, Blackboard “Exams and Essays” tab)
DUE: ESSAY 2 ROUGH DRAFT DUE THURSDAY-SUNDAY, anytime—See Rough
Draft Essay 2 in Blackboard’s “Essays and Exams” tab. NO LATES
ACCEPTED.
EXTRA CREDIT: Bring a fully completed rough draft to one of your IA's scheduled
sessions (you must adhere to their schedule) and turn it in to your IA at the beginning of
the session (they will provide a folder in their channel). If the draft is fully complete and if
you stay and participate fully in the session where the group will review essay drafts
(perhaps even yours if there is time), you will receive +5 points extra credit on your final
paper.
Recall that the paper is only a little less than a quarter of your final grade. This is worth
it. Also available Weeks 12 and the first part of Week 13.
Please do not ask the IAs to review your paper outside of their scheduled office hours.
This offer is good only for your scheduled IA and during her scheduled hours.
Focus Images
19.1 Augustus as Imperator, from Villa of Livia at Prima Porta, early first century BCE
19.5 Relief of Tellus (Mother Earth) or Pax, detail from Ara Pacis Augustae, 13-9 BCE,
Marble, 5 ft. 2 in. tall. Rome.
20.11-12 Column of Trajan, dedicated 112 CE, Marble, 128 ft. high. Rome.
20.14-16 Pantheon, c. 118-125 CE. Rome.
Week 12 Later Rome
READ: Ch. 22 364-376
EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY (PARTICIPATE IN DRAFT SESSION WITH YOUR IA) is still
on. See Week 11.
DUE: Essay #2 (THURSDAY-SUNDAY, anytime, Blackboard “Exams and Essays”
tab)
DUE: Week 12 Exam (Thursday-Sunday, Blackboard “Exams and Essays” tab)
WATCH: Portraits of the Tetrarchs
WATCH: Arch of Constantine
WATCH: Basilica of Constantine and Maxentius (Basilica Nova)
Focus Images
22.9 Portraits of the Tetrarchs, originally Constantinople, c. 305. Porphyry. 51 in. High.
22.10-11 Arch of Constantine. 312-315. 69 ft. High.
22.12-13 Basilica Nova (Basilica of Constantine and Maxentius)
Week 13 Byzantium and The Early Islamic World
READ: Ch. 24 398-413; Ch. 28 464-479
EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY (PARTICIPATE IN DRAFT SESSION WITH YOUR IA) is still
on until the end of Wednesday, April 12. See Week 11. After April 12, no extra credit will be
given.
DUE (Thursday Evening-Sunday, anytime): Final Draft of Research Essay (Essay #2). See
Blackboard Turnitin upload link.
DUE: Week 13 Exam (Thursday-Sunday, Blackboard “Exams and Essays” tab)
WATCH: Naturalism in Art: Late Greek to Gothic
WATCH: Hagia Sophia
WATCH: Icons and Representation
WATCH: The Great Mosque of Damascus and Sacred Space
Focus Images
28.1-5 Hagia Sophia, 532-537, Constantinople (present-day Istanbul); Architects
Anthemius of Realles and Isidorus of Miletus.
28.8 Justinian and his entourage, apse mosaic, Church of San Vitale, Ravenna, c. 546
28.12 Virgin and Child with Angels and Saints, c. 700 CE. Encaustic on wood.
Monastery of St. Catherine, Mount Sinai, Egypt
Focus Images
24.3-5 Dome of the Rock, Umayyad period, c. 691-2, Jerusalem, Israel.
24.6-8 Great Mosque of Damascus, c. 715, Syria.
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Week 14 Romanesque
READ: Ch. 35, pp. 578-591
WATCH: Romanesque: Saint-Sernin
Focus Images
35.3-6 St. Sernin, 1070-96, Toulouse, France.
35.7 Pentecost and the Mission of the Apostles, 1120-1132. Stone Tympanum,
Vézelay, France.
35.10 Reliquary of Ste. Foy, late tenth and early eleventh century with later additions.
Gold, silver gilt, jewels over wood, 33.5 in., Cathedral Treasure, Conques, France.
Week 15: Gothic and Second Major Exam
READ: Ch. 36, pp. 592-607
WATCH: Birth of the Gothic
WATCH: Gothic Sacred: Light and Height
DUE: Major Exam #2 (Thursday-Sunday, Blackboard “Exams and Essays” tab) Note:
Questions from this week’s reading will be found on your Major Exam #2 (there will be
no separate weekly exam). Just as in Major Exam #1, there will be two parts: the exam
and the essay exam. The essay exam questions and more information may be
found in Week 8 above. You will be asked to write on one of those three and turn in
your essay to the appropriate Turnitin link on Blackboard. Your IA will announce your
question at the same time that the exam opens. The essay will count as 30% of your
Major Exam 2 grade. The regular exam will also be on Blackboard and will be in the
same format as Major Exam 1. Questions will come from all chapters we have read and
videos we have watched since Major Exam 1 (from Week 8 on). Questions on Period
Style (Prehistoric, Early West Asian, etc.) may be taken from any period we have
studied this semester. The regular (Blackboard) exam part of Major Exam #2 will count
for 70% of your Major Exam 2 grade. The essay question you turn into your IA will count
for 30%.
Focus Images
36.2-3 Ambulatory, St. Denis, Paris, France, 1140-44
36.11 Westwork of Reims Cathedral, France 1225-60
36.13 Annunciation and Visitation, jamb figures from centra portal, Reims Cathedral,
France, c. 1230-55
36.16 Jean Pucelle, "The Betrayal of Christ" and "The Annunciation" from the Hours of
Jeanne d'Evreux, 1324-8. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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