Baroque+Art

=Reading Assignment on Baroque Art:=

Read about Baroque Art in //The Annotated Mona Lisa// pp. 46-65. Be sure that you know five or six characteristics of Baroque art and at least six major Baroque artists and their works (especially from the Netherlands).

=**Written Assignment Baroque Art:**=

Select one important example of Baroque art from those mentioned in the reading assignment. Find a color image of it and paste it into a document (carefully noting its source). Then analyze how many of the characteristics of Baroque art can be found in the work you've selected. Your analysis should take the form of comments annotated around the image and connected to it by arrows pointing out specific Baroque traits in the work. Don't forget your name, date, class and a title. Print this before class or you will lose 10 points.

link to some excellent art images:

[|Web Gallery of Art]

[|Baroque Fine Arts Images]

Some Key Elements of Baroque Art