History of Art Paper

Art History I

Final Paper Prep Sheet

Your final paper will be an exploration of an artwork of your choice that falls within the dates and regions treated by this course (prehistory-1300AD/CE, Europe and the Mediterranean basin). This paper is not a response paper, or a summary of what we have learned in class. Your paper must offer an original, academic argument about an artwork or set of artworks. Your argument will be supported by the use of outside scholarly sources (at least two, not including our textbook) and accompanying images.

This paper prep. sheet is due as a hardcopy in class on Thursday, October 18.

The final version of your paper is due Wednesday, November 14, at 8pm as a Word document uploaded to Blackboard. Papers submitted late by any amount of time will be penalized two grade increments per 24 hour period (for example: an A paper submitted up to 24 hours past the deadline becomes a B+ paper, and so on).

Your paper should be formatted as follows: 12pt. standard font, double-spaced, left justified text, 1" margins. The text of your final paper, including footnotes but not including your works cited page and images, should be at least five full pages long and no more than seven pages long. Accompanying images must appear after the text of the essay with captions and in-text references written according to Chicago guidelines.