Choose only 2 of the following essay questions. Write a detailed response (100-200 words) that answers the question completely, providing the number and kind of examples asked for. All example works of art should be taken from those covered in class, and should identify artist, title, date, and medium.
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1- Write an essay about the Protestant Reformation in Art and the Dutch Golden Age. What was Reformation and what caused it? Who was the main person who lead the movement? Use at least 1 artwork that references Protestantism. Make sure you identify artist, title, date, and medium of each work in your essay.
2- How would you characterize the style and the storytelling in Bernini, Saint Teresa of Avila in Ecstasy, marble and gilded stucco, Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, 1642-52? Write a comprehensive formal analysis on this work. Make sure to discuss the illusionism thats been created in this artwork by providing information on Italian (Catholic) Baroque and the patrons of art.
3- Write a formal analysis on Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, oil on canvas, 1784-85. Make sure to cover the symbolism, style, and the historical context as well.
4- Write a formal analysis on Henri Matisse, Harmony in Red, 1908, Oil on Canvas. Make sure to explain which artistic period this work belongs to and provide information on historical background and symbolic content.
5- Write a formal analysis on Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, oil on canvas, 1939. Make sure to cover the symbolism, style, and the historical context as well.
6- Write a formal analysis on Picasso, Les Demoiselles dAvignon, oil on canvas, 1907. Make sure to cover the symbolism, style, and the historical context as well.