1. Compare/Contrast de Beaufort
Individual Project #1
DARK CRYSTALS
On view now in the Eissey Campus Gallery
Using TWO of the following works in your text, and two that you have selected from the show, please complete the
following assignment.
20-4 Robert Campin, Merode Altarpiece
21-20 Masaccio, Holy Trinity
21-27 Sandro Boticelli, Primavera
21-41 Luca Signorelli, Damned Cast into Hell
22-19 Michelangelo, Creation of Adam
22-21 Michelangelo, Last Judgement
Find two works in the gallery and list the artists name and the title of the work. Please leaf through any material
available or otherwise research the artists to gather as much contextual background information as possible.
For each comparison you must write the following:
First indicate what pictorial conventions, ideas, or themes have remained unchanged, and is possibly shared by the
two works. As always BE AS SPECIFIC AS POSSIBLE. You must list 3 similarities and write a minimum of 2
sentences minimum for each one.
Second, indicate what has changed, and how the two works diverge. Describe the historical and cultural context that
they has given rise to each work and how prevailing attitudes or ideas have shaped the content of the images.
As always BE AS SPECIFIC AS POSSIBLE. You must list 3 differences and write 3 sentences minimum for each
one.
Please do all of this in bullet points of complete sentences:
Comparison 1
Artist, title, date, medium of each work.
Similarities
1. Similarity #1 (minimum 2 sentences)
2. (minimum 2 sentences)
3. (minimum 2 sentences)
Differences
1. Difference #1(minimum 2 sentences)
2. (minimum 2 sentences)
3. (minimum 2 sentences)
Comparison 2
Artist, title, date, medium of each work.
Similarities
1. (minimum 2 sentences)
2. (minimum 2 sentences)
3. (minimum 2 sentences)
Differences
1. (minimum 2 sentences)
2. (minimum 2 sentences)
3. (minimum 2 sentences)
As always BE AS SPECIFIC AS POSSIBLE.
100 points total.