Augustus of Prima Porta artworks

Choose from these artworks below for your essay.

Your midterm essay must be on one of the following artworks.

*Khafre Enthroned
*Lion Gate
*Kritios Boy
*Aphrodite of Knidos
*Old Market Woman
*Augustus of Prima Porta
*Parthenon

*Arch of Titus

This is the topic thread where you will turn in your essay as part of the midterm. This written portion of your midterm is worth 50% of your midterm exam grade. (The objective portion is worth the other 50%) And the whole of the midterm exam grade is worth 20% of your overall grade, (therefore the written portion of the midterm is also worth 10% of your overall grade).

For this portion of the exam, you will write one essay, worth 100 points, in which you explain the stylistic and also cultural significance of one work of art which you choose from below.

INSTRUCTIONS: These instructions override anything in the module.

*Choose one artwork to write on. You’ll discuss both stylistic significance and cultural context of the one work.
*The length should be about 750 words or 3-4 pages double spaced. Longer is fine: please be concise. It should not be shorter than this though!
*Use Turnitin
*Use at least two scholarly sources outside of the modules
*Cite your sources
*Your essay must be written in complete sentences, have well-developed and focused paragraphs, include a brief introduction and thesis, and have a conclusion.
*PLEASE DROP IN TEXT to the Midterm Essay discussion topic and ATTACH relevant IMAGES.

CONTENT:

The first part should be on the stylistic significance of the piece you chose from below. For the stylistic characteristics you should address the following points:

Analyze its stylistic significance by discussing important stylistic developments that have influenced the piece and discuss how the piece predicts stylistic developments that follow, establishing why it is significant. Explain how it represents the period’s style, and use art history terminology

*Identify the name of the piece, the artist (if known), and the period.
*Explain why is this artwork is stylistically significant.
*Discuss how it represents the style of art typically associated with this period.
*Discuss if it represents innovations of the era.
*Identify stylistic influences that can be seen in this piece by connecting it to other pieces.
*include art vocabulary

THEN, the second part of your essay should address the cultural significance of the same piece. For the cultural significance you should address the following points:

*Discuss key historical figures associated with the piece, if relevant
*Explain how cultural values, ideas or traditions that are represented in the piece
*Historical events that are associated with the piece
*Historical context of the piece
*Identify cultural relationships in the work

Consider: Why is it important to art history? How does the work reflect its cultural, social, historical, or political significance? What does it tell us about the culture that produced it? What function did it serve in its society, and how does it help us to understand the period in which it was made?

TURNITIN

You will be required to run your midterm essay through Turnitin.com before posting it in this discussion topic. Turnitin identifies un-original content in your papers in a custom ‘Originality Report’ generated for the assignment you submit, including links to the source.

You do not need to submit your Turnitin originality report to me (don’t waste your time) as I can access it easily, however you MUST submit your essay in both places – I need it in here in this discussion (It will be private, no one in the class with see your writing)

TIPS FOR WRITING

See attached attached rubric and suggestions for writing art analyses.

RESEARCH

Good sources include:

*Professional art historical publication (magazine or journal, can be online) such as The Art Bulletin
*Scholarly professional website (for example, a museum, research institute or university)
*Nonfiction book published within the last 50 years
*An art history textbook (such as Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition, or Schneider-Adams’s Art Across Time)
*Credible professional websites, such as those of museums, galleries, and universities, for example:
*The Getty Center
*The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Please don’t use or cite Wikipedia for your research, (but you can start with it and check the references); use .org and .edu sites; not .com

Good site for citing references and avoiding plagiarism. http://plagiarism.org/citing-sources/overview

CITING REFERENCES

If you refer to course material, put the module number and session number in parenthesis after the citation like this (M:#;S:#).

For citing references, please use MLA. For information on this format: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

To reference a site, put the title in parenthesis after the referred portion or use footnotes.

Add the full reference citation information at the end of the doc.