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HA3262

HA3262

UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK

Summer Examinations: 2000/2001

ARTISTS PATRONS AND CONSUMERS IN 16TH-CENTURY ITALY

Time allowed: 3 hours.

Candidates must attempt ALL questions.

Each question carries the same weight and candidates are advised to spread their time evenly between the questions.

Refer to each image by the number and letter on the back.

Read carefully the instructions on the answer book and make sure that the particulars required are entered on each answer book.

Photographs and photocopies MUST NOT be defaced or removed from the examinations room.

1. Identify, date and compare A with B.

2. Identify and date image A and text B, and discuss the relationship between them.

2.B '...surely design existed in absolute perfection before the Creation when Almighty God, having made the vast expanse of the universe and adorned the heavens with His shining lights, directed His creative intellect further, to the clear air and the solid earth. And then, in the act of creating man, He fashioned the first forms of painting and sculpture in the sublime grace of created things. It is undeniable that from man, as from a perfect model, statues and pieces of sculpture and the challenges of pose and contour were first derived, and for the first paintings, whatever they may have been, the ideas of softness and unity and the clashing harmony made by light and shadow were derived from the same source.'

3. Identify, date and compare A with B.

4. Identify, date and compare A with B.

5. Identify and date image A and text B, and compare them in the context of historical and theoretical debates about Mannerism.

6. Identify, date and compare A with B.

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HA3262

UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK

Summer Examinations: 2000/2001

ARTISTS PATRONS AND CONSUMERS IN 16TH-CENTURY ITALY

1.A Raphael, Entombment, 1507, Galleria Borghese, Rome.

B Pontormo, Entombment, 1525-8, Santa Felicita, Florence.

2.A Michelangelo, Creation of Adam, 1508-12, Sistine Chapel, Rome.

B (Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists, 1568)

3.A Raphael, Ecstasy of St. Cecilia, 1514, Bologna, Pinacoteca.

B Parmigianino, Madonna of the Long Neck, 1534-6, Florence, Uffizi.

4.A Titian, Bacchus and Ariadne, 1522-3, National Gallery, London.

B Andrea Mantegna, Parnassus, Louvre, Paris.

5.A Rosso Fiorentino, Dead Christ with Angels, 1526, MFA, Boston.

B Rosso Fiorentino, Deposition from the Cross, 1527, San Lorenzo, Sansepolcro.

6.A Leonardo, Lady with an Ermine, c. 1485, Cracow, Czartoyrski Museum.

B Lorenzo Lotto, Portrait of a Woman with a picture of Lucretia, c.1530-3, National Gallery, London.

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