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Short research paper: For this assignment , you will write a short research paper on an art historical topic of your choice. There are several resources that you will find helpful online to conduct your research.If you go to the University of Louisville Art Library homepage , there are several links to research search engines, scholarly journals and publications that will help you. Some exmples are : Art Abstracts, Artstor,, Jstor, AveryIndex, Oxford Art Online, Bibliography of the History of Art, EBSCO Academic Search Premier, and ProQuest Research Library. There are also several other links if you click "more art databases:. Your assignment is to find three different articles that relate to your topic and use them to write a two page research paper. You must also properly cite your sources. All Fine Arts and Art Historical papers and publications use Chicago Manual of Style using footnotes or endnotes.

Essay Instructions: Discuss in depth the cultural and social influences evident in the work of one Neoclassical artist.
That artist being Antonio Canova and his works including important pieces such as 'Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss' (1787-1793),

Below is a preferred and relevant list of writings helpful to this essay:
Siegel, J. 2000. ??Monuments of Pure Antiquity?: The Challenge of the Object in Neoclassical

Theory and Pedagogy?. In Desire and Excess: The Nineteenth-Century Culture of Art, J. Siegal, 40-72. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Tomory, P. A. 1969. ?Neoclassicism and Romanticism c. 1770-1850?. In Foundations of European Art, 207-229. New York: Harry N. Abrams.

Rosenblum, R. and H. W. Janson. 1984. ?Part I: 1776-1815?. In Art of the Nineteenth Century: Painting and Sculpture. R. Rosenblum, and H. W. Janson, 14-109. London: Thames and Hudson.

Copplestone, T. and B. Myers, eds. 1996. The History of Art: Architecture, Painting, Sculpture. 5th ed. London: Hamlyn.
Craske, Matthew. 1997. Art in Europe 1700-1830: A History of the
Visual Arts in an Era of Unprecedented Urban Economic Growth.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Honour, H. 1968. Neoclassicism. London: Pelican Books.
Kleiner, F. S. 2009. Gardner?s Art Through the Ages: A Global History. 13th ed. Boston, MA: Thomson Wadsworth.
Pevsner, N. 1963. An Outline of European Architecture, 7th ed. London: Penguin Books.
Praz, M. 1969. On Neoclassicism. London: Thames and Hudson.
Siegel, J. 2000. Desire and Excess: The Nineteenth-Century Culture of Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Essay Instructions: What replaced the power vacuum left by the fall of the Roman Empire and why? Is it accurate to call the early Medieval period the Dark Ages?

Internet sources and another source must be Janson's History of Art.

Essay Instructions: Essay addressing yourself to problems of landscape painting from the 17th through the 20th century. How has the conception of landscape painting changed from Poussin to Kiefer? How do landscape paintings encode basic ideological concerns of the times?
The paper should be a cohesive argument and should include endnotes and a bibliography. You will want to do some reasearch to flush out what Janson ( History of Art, by H.W. Janson & Anthony F. Janson) has to say, especially on the website works listed below which are not included in the text(and most of which you should include in your essay). Select a total of approximately 10 works as the basis for your discussion.
Poussin, Funeral of Phocian
Fraggonard, The Swing
Friedrich, Monk by the Sea
Miro, Tilled Field
Christo, Running Fence
Kiefer, Nuremburg