Reference no: EM13970124

Museum Website Scavenger Hunt Worksheet-

You may use the University of Phoenix Material: List of Recommended Websites for Art Museums as a resource.

Part A: Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Eras

• Choose one of the following visual arts media:

o Painting
o Sculpture
o Architecture

• Browse the University of Phoenix Material: List of Recommended Websites for Art Museums found on your student website. Choose one example of your chosen visual arts medium from each of the time periods below:

o Middle Ages (400-1300 CE)
o Renaissance (1400-1600 CE)
o Baroque Era (1600-1750 CE)

Each example should be from a different museum website.

• Complete the following table for each of your selected artworks from each period:

	Middle Ages	Renaissance	Baroque
Name of artwork
Name of museum
Link to work of art
Purpose of artwork
Date created
Place created
Name of artist

• Provide a brief description of each work of art:

• Summarize, in roughly 150-words, how aesthetic values in the visual arts changed over the course of these three concurrent eras.

Part B: Neoclassical and Romanticism Eras

• Research Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa and Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People: July 28, 1830. Review pp. 485 & 488 of your text.

o How does Théodore Géricault express the neoclassical ideal of humanitarianism through his painting, The Raft of the Medusa?

o How does Eugène Delacroix express the Romantic ideals of individual freedom and autonomy through his painting, Liberty Leading the People?

o In your analysis, how do Neoclassical ideals precipitate the aesthetics of Romanticism in these two works of art?