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Essay Instructions: Visit the websites for Renaissance art:

http://www.mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/MV_Musei.html
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/r/renaissance.earlier.html
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/r/renaissance.later.html



As a group, select three paintings or three sculptures from the Renaissance period.

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Visit the websites for Gothic Cathedrals:

http://www.newyorkcarver.com/cathedrallinks.htm
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Chartres_Cathedral.html
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/chartres.html
http://www.elore.com/Gothic/Glossary/structure.htm

As a group, choose three cathedrals from the Gothic period (search www.artlex.com for more info on Gothic cathedrals).

Discuss those three works on the small group discussion board. Using the vocabulary you are learning from the text when evaluating art, compare and contrast the works including materials used, style, meaning, symbolism, and any other aesthetic issues concerning the art you have chosen. Explain how the works of art fit into the context of the time period. Again, this is a comparative essay, not a book report.

Essay Instructions: Discuss the relationship between love and sexual desire in the Renaissance period . Do they require one another, contradict one another or something else? I am using Philip Sidney's "Astrophil and Stella" and Edmund Spenser's "Amoretti' and I believe love and desire require one another.

Essay Instructions: Health in Middle Ages/Renaissance Research Paper

Topic is Social Class and Health in the Middle Ages/Renaissance

Each students will write an 8-10 page research paper that deals with a health-related issue from the Medieval or Renaissance period. The possible directions for writing this paper are open so student creativity is encouraged.
The student should strive to streamline his/her topic as much as possible. Overall, the paper is worth a total of 180 points. The point distribution for the paper is broken down as follows.
30 Points: A thesis statement AND detailed outline emailed directly to me by the due date. For information on how to construct a thesis statement visit http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/545/1/.
? 50 Points: A Rough draft emailed directly to me by the due date.
? 100 Points: The final draft emailed directly to me by the due date. For information on how to write an effective research paper, visit http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/.
The format requirements for the paper include the following criteria:
? The paper itself should include at least 6 reputable sources, of which only half may be from the internet.
? The paper must include either parenthetical or footnote citations throughout the body of the paper. This should be done consistently and not sporadically. For information on how to use parenthetical documentation rules please visit. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/. For information on how on footnotes, visit http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/04/.
? You paper should include a cover page along with a Works Cited or Bibliography page. Note, these pages DO NOT figure into the overall page count of the paper
? Your paper must be typed in Times New Roman Font size 12 with 1 inch margins on all sides. Failure to comply with these style rules will result in a grade reduction.

Essay Instructions: During the Italian Renaissance Italy though its art and artists became the cultural leader of Europe. Cite at least 3 artists from the renaissance period and how there art impacted the rest of Europe.