Option : Book/Film Reviews

Write a review of one of these books or films. In your review, take into consideration historical accuracy and detail. Is it a book/film that primarily educates or entertains? What do you think the intent was? How does the book/film enhance your understanding of the time period and/or the artist? These reviews should be two to three pages, typed, in length.

1. Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King.

2. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (book), or the film of the same name (about the artist Jan Vermeer)

3. The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone, or the film of the same name starring Charleton Heston

4. Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Ca Italy by Michael Baxandall * - (scholarly publication about the period)

5. The Passion of Artemesia by Susan Vreeland (on the artist Artemesia Gendleschi, rare female artist of the 17th century)

6. Rembrandes Eyes by Simon Schama (17th century Holland)

7. The Secret Book of Grazia de'Rossi by Jacqueline Park (15th century Italy)

8. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, and the film of the same name

9. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, and the film of the same name

10. inferno by Dan Brown

11. The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant (15th century Italy)

12. Medici Money: Banking. Metaphysics. and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence by Time Parks (15th century Italy)

13. The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio by Jonathan Harr (locating a lost work by 17th century artist Caravaggio)

14. Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times by William Wallace

lion C: Build a Model or Recreate a Work of Art ke one of the techniques or works of art that we will discuss this semester and ild a model or create a work based on that technique or work of art. Make sure It your re-creation is detailed and accurate. You will also need to produce a tw. ge (minimum) discussion of various aspects of the re-creation - historical.