Questions Art Historians Ask and Word Art Used

Two part assignment. Text will be provided

1.

Review the ?Questions Art Historians Use? section in the Introduction
of the textbook. Select two of the five questions. Explain what art
historians are trying to gain by asking each question and how they might
go about finding an answer.

Next, select a work of art of your choice from

• Art Institute of Chicago (http://www.artic.edu/)

Apply the two questions you have selected to the work of art. Explain the process you used to find the

answers to the questions and what you ultimately found those answers to be.

Cite your sources

2.

Review the Google Arts and Culture online exhibit, ?The Fall of the Rebel Angels?: A Closer Look at the Masterpiece (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

Review the ?Words Art Historians Use? section in the Introduction of
the textbook (Kleiner, 2017, p.7). Art historians use specific
terminology to describe artworks and buildings of various regions and
periods.

Drawing on the information that you learned from the exhibit,
analyze the Bruegel work, The Fall of the Rebel Angels, in your
own words, applying at least three of the most important vocabulary
words that art historians use to describe the work art. Explain why you
chose those three terms and why they are important for analyzing art.

Cite your sources