Verrocchio's David

Here's a great website from our very own High Museum of Art!  This is a fabulous resource to help you with your Q-card on Verrocchio's David.  Have fun!

http://www.high.org/david/index.html

Field Trip possibility

I'm thinking we may have to continue our movie-going experiences as a class with this one next semester!  Thanks, Jordan, for the head's up!

Check out the trailer below and at around 15-16 seconds, see if you recognize the work they show.  Note the size compared to the actors!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2177771/

ABET Groupings

The ABET Group selections have been posted on the TypePad blog.  Be sure to check who is in your group, and exchange contact information including e-mail and/or phone.  Also, each group will need to decide on a chairman, who will act as the main liaison for communication with me.  This will need to be decided by Wednesday of this week.  Have a think, and let me know soon.

Details will be coming this week regarding the project, but in the meantime you can be looking through your chapter!

Only two more weeks to go before Thanksgiving break...keep up the good work!

Giotto Arena Chapel Videos - due Tuesday!

Here are the links to the Arena Chapel videos on Smart History.  You can watch all four of them if you'd like (I recommend most of the videos on this site) but pay close attention to 1-3, as we will be discussing in class tomorrow.

http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/giotto-arena-chapel-part-1.html

ABET Groups -- be ready!

Tomorrow you will be signing up for your ABET group in class.  No time tomorrow for thinking about which group you want to sign up for.  Come ready to sign up, as all groups have limited space and slots will be filled first-come, first-served!

Group choices are as follows:

• India & Southeast Asia
• China & Korea
• Japan
• Africa
• The Americas
• Oceania

Signups begin as early as 8:15am in D139.

Sketchbook #3

When exactly is the sketchbook due? I wasn't in class the day it was assigned. Thanks in advance!
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Gothic reading

For the reading for the Gothic Period, should we be finished with the chapter or are all of the due dates back a day since we did not start Gothic until today?

British Museum Exhibition - Topic 4

Exhibitions like these always raise much controversy over whether objects of such worth and delicate nature should be subject to the high risks of traveling.  Was it responsible of the British Museum to organize this exhibition in London, knowing that these intensely delicate objects would have to travel from all over the world?  Or would it have been more socially and culturally responsible for them to fund an exhibition within the Naples area, wherein the objects wouldn't have to travel?  Argue your point with specific details!

British Museum Exhibition - Topic 3

There is much controversy over whether or not we should continue excavating at Pompeii, Herculaneum or both.  What is your opinion on the issue, and how would you go about convincing world leaders (and museum officials/archaeologists) that your opinion is the right one?

British Museum Exhibition - Topic 2

Much of the British Museum's exhibition focused on the LIFE of the citizens of both Pompeii and Herculaneum.  What one object from the exhibition do you feel best exemplifies the subject of EVERYDAY LIFE in either Pompeii or Herculaneum in AD 79?  Why do you connect with that object, and what is it about that object that makes it the most telling?