ART History Research Paper Sample - artvalli

Guideline to Writing a Research Paper for Art History

Use a single 12 pt. font, double-spaced. The same font should be used for all parts of your paper; top and bottom margins will be set to 1 inch, with left and right margins set to 1.25 inches.

Cover Page:

Your Name Title of Paper Course Number and Name Professor's Name Date

Illustrations:

Each work of art you will be discussing in your paper will have an illustration page attached to the beginning of your paper after the cover page. Each illustration page will have a label accompanying it. Write the word "Illustrations" at the top (centered) of the first page of this section.

Body of Your Paper: Introduction: In two to three paragraphs introduce the purpose and the goals of this paper.

Body: This paper is a summarization of what you have learned in this particular class. You will apply what you have learned about the history of each time period of art you have studied, the culture you have studied, and the types of artworks you have studied in class as they apply to the objects you selected at the museum and what you learned from the museum's resources and your own independent reading.

Conclusion: Your conclusion will be 2 to 3 paragraphs long that summarize what you have learned through the research of the five works of art you selected at the museum and how it relates to what you experienced in class.

* The body of your paper is where you will include footnotes.

Bibliography: This will be the last section. Write the word "Bibliography" at the top (centered) of the first page of this section. Double-space between items and alphabetically order them. The bibliography should only include sources used in the paper. Make sure you follow the style guidelines of The Chicago Manual of Style for citations and the bibliography.

Sample

Alex Smith Final Paper Art 101.01: History of Western Art I: Prehistoric to the 14th Century Prof. Valerie Sioufas-Lalli May 12, 2016

Illustrations

Figure 1 Artist Unknown Two-Sided Pendant with Archangel Michael and Daniel in the Lion's Den c. 1200 CE (or AD), Byzantine

Serpentine 2 1/4 x 1 5/16 x 9/16 in. (5.7 x 3.4 x 1.4 cm)

1987.442.4

Figure 6 Artist Unknown Augustus of Primaporta Early 1st Century AD/CE, Roman Possibly Roman copy of a statue of ca. 20 CE

Marble Height 6' 8" (2.03 m) Vatican Museum, Rome

The focus of this paper will be on works of art chosen from five different cultures and stylistic periods centered around the Western world, specifically cultures that occupied the continent of Europe and the Mediterranean world from the time of the Dynastic Egyptians to the period of what is often known as the Middle Ages. Presented in this paper are objects from Egypt, Rome, the Islamic world, Byzantium and Gothic Europe all depicting the unique characteristics of the culture that created these works and reflecting the time period in which they were commissioned and presented in final form.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art provided a wealth of material culture from which to choose from and in this paper the focus will be on a Two-Sided Pendant with Archangel Michael and Daniel in the Lion's Den (Figure 1), XXXXXXX (Figure 2), XXXXXXX (Figure 3), XXXXXXX (Figure 4), and XXXXXXX (Figure 5). These works represent a variety of art forms, from sculpture to works on parchment, mosaics, and painting, and thereby illustrate also the specific techniques utilized to shape these objects.

Although a daunting task to summarize the specific qualities of each work of art presented here, the final result was one that ultimately delineated an evolutionary process that was surprising and straightforward. Etc...

The Two-Sided Pendant with Archangel Michael and Daniel in the Lion's Den (Figure 1) is a Byzantine work dating to about 1200 CE. As such, it demonstrates its connection to the eastern half of the Roman Empire and specifically to Byzantine civilization centered in Constantinople, the capital city of Constantine the Great founded in 330 CE and surviving to 1453 CE.1 "The Early Byzantine period extends from the founding of the new capital into the 700s. Christianity replaced the gods of antiquity as the official religion of the

1 Encyclop?dia Britannica Online, s. v. "Byzantine Empire", accessed April 25, 2016 2 Sarah Brooks. "Byzantium (ca. 330?1453)." In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York:

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