Art and history-Plagiarism Free/ No Citations due 6/12/19

  

Question 1) Compare two mosques from two different parts of the Islamic world?  What do they have in common and how do they vary?  Why?

 Question 2): Which aspects of the Taj Mahal derive from the Islamic traditions introduced into India during the Mughal period?

  

Question 3): Discuss the subject matter of the bronze doors that Bishop Bernward commissioned for the abbey of the church of Hildesheim.  Why is it appropriate for the entrance to a church?

  

Question 4): Explain what you think are the most important innovations - structural and stylistic - that earn the abbey church at Saint-Denis the reputation as the first Gothic church.

  

Question 5) Choose a native North American work that was made to be used in social life or ritual.  Explain the difference between its form and meaning while in use and while observed in the context of a museum installation.