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This assignment asks you to reflect upon the business of art and the works of art and objects of material culture that we have discussed in our course. Based on the notes that you have taken throughout the course and the readings that you have done you are asked to place yourself in the shoes of a museum curator who is tasked with organizing a focused/one-gallery exhibition. Your assignment consists in creating a “virtual exhibition”: select four works of art that are linked together.

Structure of the assignment:

In the first three pages of your assignment:

1) describe the rationale of your exhibition. You can think of this section as the long introductory wall label you often see at the beginning of an exhibition;

2) introduce the works that you want to display in your exhibition (author; title; date; technique/medium; current location etc.);

3) outline how the exhibited works will be displayed within the exhibition space (as pairs on facing walls; each work shown on a wall etc.; at the center of your gallery; in vitrines etc.) and the advantage of your display in relation to the works. 

In the other three pages of your assignment you offer formal and iconographic analyses of the individual works that are on display in your exhibition and elaborate, if needed, on the above outlined points (especially n. 1; 3).

This assignment should be developed using:

1) Class notes;

2) Notes from the assigned readings;

3) PP presentations and their build-in information;

4) Outlines of major topics/focus points in each PP presentation=recapitulation slide.

5) 6 pages double spaced, 12 fonts

 

DO NOT USE INFORMATION FROM THE INTERNET FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT but STICK TO THE CONTENTS THAT WERE GENERATED IN VARIOUS FORMS IN THE COURSE. 

Information you will use for the essay: 4 images:

Theme of the Exhibition: The formation of art as products from the academy to copy rights

They will be displayed on the same wall and in line with chronology order, which could lead the audience to feel the changing development of the art market.

1. First present the academy logo, showing the advent of institution has become “serious” at that time image: Leonardo da Vinci, Knot pattern, with around the central circle the words ‘Leonardo Academia’ and in the centre ‘Vici’, 1490-1515, London, British Museum 

2. Second presenting the image of the workshop (Academy of Baccio Bandinelli), provide a sense of the academy image: Agostino Veneziano, Academy of Baccio Bandinelli, 1531, engraving

3. Provide two compare and contrast image showing the “art production market”

First Two images are about:

· The notion of the academy 

· How the institutions available for the artist for the modern society

· The workshop in early modern italy as a site of training for artists 

· The notion of an academy as a site of artist learning and the rise of art as a product of the mind

Leonardo da Vinci, Knot pattern, with around the central circle the words ‘Leonardo Academia’ and in the centre ‘Vici’, 1490-1515, London, British Museum 

a. Leonardo’s network of learned friends and colleagues 

b. Leonardo thinking artists as individuals and also the art as a way of connecting people through an academy, a site in which provided a meeting place for the exchange of ideas among the network of learned friends and colleges. 

c. Medium: Engraving work

d. Notion of academy: organize and fund by Leonardo in milan 

e. The revaluation of academy, which is different from the modern idea of academy: The notion of art was seens as intellectual activity, as culture operators, (individuals can operate) 

i. Open place: in Renaissance,

Academy of Baccio Bandinelli:

4.

Agostino Veneziano, Academy of Baccio Bandinelli, 1531, engraving

a. Sculptural conception of the art of drawing and the idea of the academy as a place of learning: high social position or artist

b. Study and imitation of antique models 

c. Artists all dressed up → seems like noble/ Artist were talking and listening → Training and conversation about art 

d. The objects collected for the art → antique models, etc.

Then with the invention of printing tech, such as woodcut, it allows people to reproduce inexpensive art works.

· Titian VS Cort Cornelius, the glory. 1551-54, CCornelius made its after titian in 1566 

· Iconography: religious subject. Trinity, god the father,... other individuals at the below. Woman raising her hand was recognized as the Mary. // landscape under the painting

· Titian applied for a privilege for his work and complained that “certain men of little skill in art, in order to avoid hard work and out of greed for money, have adopted this …”

· Titian is being aware of his potential of printing tech and recognized that the COPYRIGHT