TOPICS: Look for your Seminar Group #
Seminar Group #1
Choose one of the following options for your post:
1. Who were the primary patrons for Italian art in the fifteenth century? Discuss similarities and
differences in their motivations and the types of works commissioned. Give at least two
different examples.
OR
2. Explain how Poussin’s landscape (Fig. 14-35) can be seen as an example of seventeenthcentury
Classicism. Define and explain the characteristics of Classicism in your answer.
Seminar Group #2
Choose one of the following options for your post:
1. Describe the types of patronage available in fifteenth-century Flanders. Was the Church the
only option? What types or genres of paintings were popular during this period in Flanders?
OR
2. Choose two paintings of monarchs in Chapter 14/Module 8 and explain how the artists who
painted them signified the ruler’s prestige and power.
Seminar Group #3
Choose one of the following options for your post:
1. Identify a specific commission that drew artists to Rome in the fifteenth century. Name an
artist that was part of this commission and describe his contribution to the project. Discuss
why such commissions were important.
OR
2. Discuss the impact of the Reformation on the visual arts in northern Europe. What types of
subject matter were popular with Protestant patrons?
Seminar Group #4
Choose one of the following options for your post:
1. What did the term “Renaissance” mean for artists and patrons in fifteenth -century Italy?
OR
2. Discuss the development of portraiture, still life, and genre painting in the Dutch Republic
during the seventeenth century. What accounts for the increased importance of these
subjects at this time?
RUBRIC: VISA 1Q99 Seminar Discussion Forum #3
Due Thursday, May 25th, 11:55 pm
Criterion A (A+, A, A-) B (B+, B, B-) C (C+, C, C-) D (D+, D, D-) F
