MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE

ART HISTORY 102 MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE

The midterm is divided into two parts:

Part 1: Slide Identification 50%

For this section you will be shown 25 images, for each image you must

identify the artist, title, and date

The “short list” of 35 possible images is:

Caravaggio, Doubting Thomas, c.1600

Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes, c.1620 

Poussin, Et in Arcadia Ego, 1638

Velazquez, Las Meninas (Maids of Honor), 1656

Bernini, David, 1623 -1624

Giovanni Bellini, Saint Francis in the Desert, c.1475

Giotto, Crucifixion, Arena Chapel, Padua, 1305-1306

Titian,Venus of Urbino, c.1538 

Giorgione, The Tempest, c.1505

Tintoretto, Finding of the Body of St.Mark, 1562 -1566

El Greco, Burial of Count Orgaz, 1586 -1588 

Matthias Grunewald, The Isenheim Altarpiece (Closed), 1510 -1515

Cranach, The Nymph of the Spring, 1537

Holbein, The Ambassadors, 1533 

Albrecht Dürer, Melancholia I, 1514 

Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi, Annunciation, 1333

Giotto, The Last Judgement, Arena Chapel, 1305-1306

Peter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c.1554 -1555 

Duccio di Buoninsegna, Maesta Altarpiece, 1308 - 1311

Michelangelo, David, 1501-1504

Michelangelo, Pieta, 1498-1499

Leonardo di Vinci, Last Supper, 1495-1497

Raphael, School of Athens, 1510-1511

Pontormo, Entombment/Deposition, 1525-1526

Parmigianino, Madonna and Christ with Angels (Madonna of the Long Neck), c. 1534

Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1490-1510

Jan van Eyck, The Betrothal of the Arnolfini, 1434

Rogier van der Weden, The Descent from the Cross, 1435

Konrad Witz, The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, 1444

Piero della Francesca, The Flagellation of Christ, c. 1455-1460

Massaccio, The Tribute Money, c.1427

Fra Anglico, The Annunciation, c. 1440

Donatello, Herod’s Feast, 1427

Donatello, David, c.1440-1460

Sandro Bottecelli, The Birth of Venus, 1485

Part II: Short answer comparisons 50%

There will be three comparison questions.

For this section you will be shown two (or in a few cases three) images to compare in complete sentences.

Each comparison should do roughly three things in a short paragraph:  1)Identify 2)formally analyze 3)contextualize. 

For this section you must identify the artists, work, date, and be able to locate it within a particular place/lineage (i.e. 17th century Italy or 15th century Northern Europe). You need to explain how you know its position within art history using formal analysis - discussion of perspective, color, composition stylistic components and what the comparison highlights (what do they say in relation to one another?; why were they put together?)

To study for this section re-read the chapters from the text book and review your notes from class, we will go over a series of these in class to give a sense of how to approach them in different ways. 

The key is to make your thoughts and explanations clear and concise.