For each of the periods, you will select one item to include in your museum.
For each of the periods, you will select one item to include in your museum.
Web Museum
You will develop a Web Museum using the textbook and outside resources to locate items on the Internet in online museums and libraries.
Textbook: Janson’s History of Art 8th edition
For each of the periods listed you will select one item to include in your museum (THERE ARE 12 TOTAL PERIODS). Each item should be a piece of visual art. Each piece should give museum visitors a good understanding of the civilization or culture of the appropriate time period. The references and links you provide will allow visitors to view the items.
A final document will include a description of each museum piece (100-word paragraphs in your own words for each piece), the Internet location, a visual image of the work, and the reference(s), using APA or MLA formatting.
Periods:
- Baroque in Italy and Spain – choose one work
- Baroque in the Netherlands
- Baroque in France and England – choose one work
- Rococo
- The Enlightenment
- Romanticism
- The Age of Positivism (Realism, Impressionism, and the Pre-Raphaelites) – choose one work
- The “Discontents” (Post Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau) – choose one work
- Abstraction
- Art of the “War” periods – choose one work
- Post World War II periods – choose one work
- The Post Modern Era – choose one work