Museum Website Scavenger Hunt
Part A: Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Eras
· Choose one of the following visual arts media:
o Painting
o Sculpture
o Architecture
· Browse the University of Phoenix Material: List of Recommended Websites for Art Museums found on your student website. Choose one example of your chosen visual arts medium from each of the time periods below:
o Middle Ages (400–1300 CE)
o Renaissance (1400–1600 CE)
o Baroque Era (1600–1750 CE)
Each example should be from a different museum website.
· Complete the following table for each of your selected artworks from each period:
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Renaissance |
Baroque |
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Name of artwork |
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Name of museum |
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Link to work of art |
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Place created |
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Name of artist |
· Provide a brief description of each work of art:
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Renaissance |
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Baroque |
· Summarize, in roughly 150-words, how aesthetic values in the visual arts changed over the course of these three concurrent eras.
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Aesthetic Values in Visual Arts |
Part B: Neoclassical and Romanticism Eras
· Go to MyArtsLab® and find the resources for Ch. 20, Closer Look: Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa and Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People: July 28, 1830. Review pp. 485 & 488 of your text.
o How does Théodore Géricault express the neoclassical ideal of humanitarianism through his painting, The Raft of the Medusa?
o How does Eugène Delacroix express the Romantic ideals of individual freedom and autonomy through his painting,Liberty Leading the People?
In your analysis, how do Neoclassical ideals precipitate the aesthetics of Romanticism in these two works of art?
List of Recommended Websites for Art Museums
U.S. Art Museums
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: http://www.metmuseum.org/
The Museum of Modern Art: http://www.moma.org/
National Gallery of Art: http://www.nga.gov/
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: http://www.mfa.org/
The Phillips Collection: http://www.phillipscollection.org/
The Art Institute of Chicago: http://www.artic.edu/aic/index.php
Whitney Museum of American Art: http://www.whitney.org/
The Frick Collection: http://www.frick.org/
Guggenheim Museum New York: http://www.guggenheim.org/new_york_index.shtml
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao: http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/ingles/home.htm
Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery: http://americanart.si.edu/index3.cfm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: http://hirshhorn.si.edu/
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African Art: http://www.nmafa.si.edu/voice.html
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: http://www.asia.si.edu/
The National Portrait Gallery: http://www.npg.si.edu/
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum: http://cooperhewitt.org/
National Museum of the American Indian: http://www.nmai.si.edu/
The Getty: http://www.getty.edu/
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: http://www.sfmoma.org/
National Hispanic Cultural Center: http://www.nationalhispaniccenter.org/index.php
American Visionary Art Museum: http://www.avam.org/
American Folk Art Museum: http://www.folkartmuseum.org/default.asp?id=886
National Museum of Mexican Art: http://www.nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org/
The Mexican Museum: http://www.mexicanmuseum.org/home.asp?language=english
Global Museums
The British Museum: http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/
Victorian and Albert Museum: http://www.vam.ac.uk/
Tate: http://www.tate.org.uk/
National Portrait Gallery: http://www.npg.org.uk/live/index.asp
The National Gallery, London: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/
Royal Academy of Arts: http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/
Musee de Louvre: http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home_flash.jsp?bmLocale=en
Musee d’Orsay: http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/home.html
Centre Pompidou: http://www.centrepompidou.fr/home30ans/index.html
Museo Nacional del Prado: http://museoprado.mcu.es/ihome.html
Vatican Museums: http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/MV_Home.html
Polo Museale Fiorentino: http://www.polomuseale.firenze.it/english/musei/uffizi/
Galleria Borghese: http://www.galleriaborghese.it/
Architecture Websites
Amiens Cathedral: http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/Mcahweb/index-frame.html
Buddhist Architecture: http://www.indiasite.com/architecture/buddhist.html
Great Buildings: www.greatbuildings.com
Islamic Architecture:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_architecture
Sculpture and Installation
Kiki Smith: http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/exhib_detail.asp?id=206
Pepón Osorio: http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/osorio/
Museum Timelines
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm?HomePageLink=toah_l
American Art Timeline: http://www.phillipscollection.org/research/american_art/index.htm
General Resources
The Artchive: http://artchive.com/ftp_site.htm
Art Cyclopedia: www.artcyclopedia.com
Web Gallery of Art: http://www.wga.hu/
