This document provides instructions for Assignment Two in Unit 2 of an art history course. Students are asked to answer 11 questions about important artists and artworks from the time period covered in Unit 2 of their textbook. They must cite sources and submit their written answers through the online learning platform. The questions cover major figures like Giotto, Vermeer, Bruegel, da Vinci, Michelangelo, Goya, Pollock, van Gogh, and others. Students are instructed to draw from the textbook, online resources, and their own opinions in crafting their responses.

1. Assignment Two UNIT 2
Student Name:
______________________________________________
(Your NAME must be exactly as it is on the roll in e campus
and in WEBCOM2)
Your Section Number _____________ (you must enter your
section number)
The Unit 2 Assignment 2: Unit Two in the Textbook. ONLINE
HUMA 1315send this to professor through WEBCOM 2
DIRECTIONS: The assignment is in WORD. Save the document
to your computer and write your answers in the spaces given.
You may change the spacing as needed. You are also asked to
just write what your thoughts are and what you think such as
your own opinion for some answers for some questions.
NOTE: Turn in assignments using WEBCOM2 Internal
Messages found under MENU in the top left corner of the site.
You may either attach your Word file or copy and paste your
entire submission in the message box. Be thorough in your
answers. You should use the Textbook, Essential
Humanitiesthird edition and/or the Study Guide. The Study
Guide is not mandatory; however, it is there for your
enrichment. The Study Guide is in WEBCOM 2 in the tab
labeled Student Resources. You may also want to use additional
information for any assignments from the Internet. If you do,
please remember to cite your source at the end of your answer.
If you add additional information from the Internet, this is
great, but you must cite sources. This applies to photos as well.

2. (Remember that SLO and ULO are for evaluator and for this
course to be certified and you do not have to do anything with
them. However, they show that the assignments are aligned
with the text, WEBCOM 2 and with the test questions.)
When completing your assignment questions, you should use the
text for your answers. You may also want to look at the
WEBCOM 2 website and the PowerPoints related to the great
artists and individuals mentioned in Unit II, and the colored
timeline. The timeline shows historical periods. These are
available in the Student Resources’ tab. Do not worry about
timeline dates being exact. Different sources give different
dates depending upon who wrote the timeline. Dates also
overlap with time periods, so dates are sometimes given as
“approximate dates”. Subject in a question means what it is
about. Answer all the following questions:
1. Explain what makes Giotto an important artist and why many
historians consider him important in history?
Why is Giotto considered a “transitional” artist? (SLO2: ULO
2.3)
(EXPLAIN WHAT MAKES HIS WORK SIGNIFICANT IN
YOUR TWO ANSWERS FOR #1)
2. Distinguish what subject matter the artist, Johannes Vermeer
painted during the Baroque Period in Holland? Refer to
textbook appendix for visuals.(SLO 1: ULO 1:3; SLO 2, ULO
2.2) You should also write about what you think about his
paintings.
EXPLAIN WHAT HIS PAINTING WERE ABOUT SUCH

3. AS WHAT WAS IN HIS PAINTINGS?
3. Pieter Brueghel’s work is unique for his time. Examine the
cultural heritage of the people in his paintings. Refer to
textbook appendix for visuals. (SLO 2: ULO 2.2, 2.4; SLO 3:
3.2) EXPLAIN WHAT HIS PAINTING WERE ABOUT SUCH
AS WHAT WAS IN HIS PAINTINGS?
4. Leonardo da Vinci’s painting known to us today as the Mona
Lisa is his most famous work, however, he was active in many
other fields. Give examples of how his background influenced
his productivity. (SLO 3: 3.2, 3.3)
EXPLAIN SOME TYPES OF INVENTIONS
5. Review the types of work that Michelangelo Buonarrotti
(Michelangelo) created and describe a minimum of two of his
major works and how they fit into the Renaissance period. Refer
to textbook Unit 2 (and Unit 3, p. 129) and the appendix for
visuals. (SLO 1: ULO 1.3; SLO2: 2.2; SLO3, 3.3) He usually
went by just Michelangelo. Please be thorough in your
descriptions of his work.
1. A major work (Title):

4. Description of the work:
2. A major work (Title):
Description of the work:
6. Francisco de Goya’s health conditions and the political
pressure at his time influenced the subjects for his prints,
paintings, and the etchings.
Summarize what you learned about his etchings, “The Disasters
War”, and, or the painting about the execution scene, titled,
“The Execution of the Citizens of the Third of May”. (Refer to
textbook appendix for visual or look it up in the internet). (SLO
2: ULO 2.4; SLO3: ULO 3.2)
EXPLAIN ANSWER FULLY
7. Jackson Pollock’s art style is referred to as Abstract-
Expressionism. Explain his use of elements such as line and

5. color in his artwork and explain how he was able to express
strong emotional responses through to his audience.
(SLO2: ULO 2.3)
EXPLAIN ANSWER FULLY
8. At age 27, when Vincent van Gogh left Holland to stay with
his brother in Paris, his color palette changed from his early
dark brown tones to very bright intense colors. (such as bright
yellow and blue) What did you find interesting about his life
and write about some of the factors that you think may have had
an impact on his art works? (SLO 2: ULO 2.4) For example,
when he went to Paris, he saw new paintings by Impressionist
artists who used pure colors. These artists did not add brown
and mix it with green, orange or blue.
(You may use other sources also but if you do you must give
your source or sources other than the text.)
9. Identify the main four types of printmaking processes
discussed in the text and define each
There are four processes (methods) mentioned. (SLO2: ULO
2.3)

6. Directions for his questions: Name of a process of how the artist
does the print in their studio and name the art work. (which the
product is)
For example, Intaglio is a process or method and the product is
an etching.
Name each of the 4 processes mentioned in the book. Explain
what they are by reading information from the text and or study
guide.
List the types of prints and the define the process and name the
product or art work below:
a.
b.
c.

7. d.
Information about Printmaking
*If you want to invest in prints you want to buy the first or the
last. For example,
25/25, 1/25, 1/25, 1/50, 50/50, 1/500, 500/500, 1/200, 200/220
Important Information about PRINTS:
(An edition is either 5 or 15 or 25 or 100 etc. pieces of all the
same. In other words, the artist makes the prints all of the
Same quality. They all must be the same in the edition.
10. Identify a minimum of 3 major factors that influenced the 3
following individuals’ lives while they did their work.
Refer to Unit 2. Be thorough. Discuss what affected them and
what influenced their work. (SLO 2: ULO 2.4) You may use
other sources but if you do then give source/s.
Rembrandt Van Rijn
A. Influence/s identified:
B. What do you think influenced this artist and you may want to

8. include names of work/s.
Katsushika Hokusai
A. Influence/s identified:
B. What do you think influenced this artist and you may want to
include names of work/s:
Louis Armstrong
A. Influence/s identified:
B. What do you think were some major influences in this
musician’s life to help him create?
11. Matching: Select the correct artist or architect. Write in the

9. correct name of artist in the blank below the work: (SLO 3:
ULO 3.5)
Figure 1 Landscape. Scene with dark green cypresses to the left
painted using flowing broad strokes. A city in blue tones to the
right bottom of the painting blends into the blue mountains
behind the city and darker mountains in the distance. The sky is
blue with swirls and yellow blotches and circular sun in yellow
tints to the top right.
_____________________________________________________
____________________
A. Frank Lloyd Wright
B. Vincent van Gogh
C. Pablo Picasso
Figure 2 Grayscale painting of a war scene. To the right, a bull's
head and upper body. Below a human face with open mouth
facing upward to the bull. The body appears to be of female
holding a child hanging limp in her arms. Below is a shape of a
man's head and various body parts. A horse’s head is in the
center of the painting. Open mouth. Teeth shown. A horse’s tail
is to the left above the body parts. Center top has a sun shape
with a lightbulb inside. To right more body parts, faces and to
the very right a shape of a person facing up with mouth open
and arms stretched upward.
_____________________________________________________
____________________
A. Frank Lloyd Wright
B. Vincent van Gogh
C. Pablo Picasso

10. Figure 3 A photo of a building. The terraced house is located
over a waterfall coming out over some yellow-greenish rocks.
Green trees are to the right and left and above the house
emdedding it in greenery. The house has two terraced levels
above the waterfall. The platforms are in pale yellow tones and
the indoor area is within a glassed area with brown structural
framwork. The upper level is a balcony with two people. To the
center into the greenery the building chimney and another part
of the building stand tall in pale beige stone and the brown
framework with glass window. The planes are symmetrical.
_____________________________________________________
____________________
A. Frank Lloyd Wright
B. Vincent van Gogh
C. Pablo Picasso
Figure 4 Painting of six Caucasian men in dark robes and with
white rectangular collars. Four have blond shoulder length hair,
two somewhat shorter. Four of them have moustaches, one a
goatee beard. Five of the six men wear top hats with broad rims.
A sixth man in the back does not wear a hat. To the left a
wooden chair and one of the men appears to be rising from this.
In the center a table cloth in yellow and orange colors and a
book or document with white pages. This appears to be the
center of their focus, however, all men are facing the viewer.
The wall behind the men is wooden panel and flat semi-smooth
wall. The panel wall color is beige, green, brown and the wall
color is beige, yellow and pale greenish.
_____________________________________________________

11. ____________________
A. Sir Peter Paul Rubens
B. Raphael Sanzio
C. Rembrandt
Figure 5 Figure 6 Painting of woman holding a baby cradled
with her left arm. The woman has dark brown hair drawn back
into a bun. Her left cheek is touching the baby’s right cheek.
The baby is plum, has red cheeks, yellow-brown, slightly curled
hair and holds the left hand to the mouth, palm facing the
viewer, and the right arm almost touching the woman’s right
cheek. The baby is facing the viewer and is dressed in white.
The painting is upper body of the woman who is wearing white
and a pale pink-organge pastel tone apron. The background
behind the pair is green. Detailed painting with pastels and
softness.
__________________________
A. Paul Gauguin
B. Raphael Sanzio
C. Mary Cassatt
Figure 7 Mural. A park scene. 36+ people. Men and women.
Caucasians, blacks, Hispanics. Adults, children. Centered is a
couple. Man in dark suit and with a brown walking cane. The
woman to his right wears a beige dress with a fur collar. Her
face is a skeleton under a huge bonnet hat. There is a man in a
dark brown suit asleep on a green park bench to the left. A
bunch of colorful balloons float to the left in the mural. A

12. larger balloon reads RM to the right if the center. Brown,
swaying tree stems and green and yellow leaves. A building in
the far back right has a cupola roof and a man with a large
Mexican hat on a horse to the very right holds a rifle. A little
bit of blue sky is seen in the mid center back of the painting.
_____________________________________________________
____________________
A. Paul Gauguin
B. Raphael Sanzio
C. Diego Rivera
Figure 8 A feudal landscape scene. Dark bluish and white/gray
storm clouds in the distant back are broken up to a clearer sky
in places. Distant black hills center the back of the image. A
town towers on top of a green hill to the right with a gray town
and a town wall moving down toward center left of the painting
culminating in a bridge over a river. The green-blue waterway
moves toward center front in the image. Trees, and green grass
flank the river in the foreground.
_____________________________________________________
____________________
A. Michelangelo
B. El Greco
C. Diego Rivera
Figure 9 Sculpture of a woman in rich drapes holding a dead
man in her lap as if he were a child. The woman’s face is serene

13. bent slightly down as she faces down his midsection with closed
eyes. Her head is proportionally much smaller than her body.
The man’s head is to the left in her arms. He is thin and only
wearing some cloth around his hips. The work is of white
marble and shows classical beauty.
_____________________________________________________
____________________
A. Michelangelo
B. El Greco
C. Diego Rivera
Figure 10 This mural shows thirteen men, seen from the front,
at a large rectangular table with a white table cloth. Food is
served at the table. To the very right in the painting, three men
discuss between them. One wears a blue robe facing right
toward the other two in eager discussion but holding his arms
toward the center where one man sits serenely with his arms
spread out over the table. Between the center man, who wears a
red and blue robe, and the three right men, three men lean
toward the center man using body language and their hands.
One of the men, wearing a greenish tunic, appears taken aback.
To the very left of the picture are three more men facing toward
the man in the center. One is wearing blue, one beige, and one
beige and blue. To the right of these men are another three men
in blue tunics. Two of them leaning to the left and one man with
a white beard leaning toward the center. The scene is set in a
room with blue-gray walls to the left and center and a beige
wall to the right. The back wall has two windows and a door
opening toward a distant landscape.
_____________________________________________________

14. ____________________
A. Michelangelo
B. El Greco
C. Leonardo da Vinci
2
2
1
Assignment
Two
UNIT 2
Student
Name:
______________________________________________
(
Your
N
AME
must
be exactly as it is on the roll
in e cam
pus

15. and in WEBCOM2
)
Your Section Number _____________
(
you
must
enter your section number
)
The Unit 2 Assignment 2
: Unit Two in the Textbook.
ONLINE HUMA 1315
send
this to professor through
WEBCOM 2
DIRECTIONS: The assignment is in WORD. Save the document
to your computer and write your answers in the spaces given.
You may change the spacing as needed.
You a
re
also asked to just
write what your thoug
hts are and w
hat you think such as your
own opin
io

16. n for some answers for some questions.
NOTE
:
Turn in assignments using
WEBCOM
2 Internal M
essages
found under MENU in the top left corner of the site
.
You may
either attach your Word file or copy and paste your entire
submission in the message box.
Be thorough in your answers
.
You
should use the Textbook,
Essential Humanities
third
edition
and/or the
Study Guide. The Study Guide is not mandatory
;
however,
it is there for your enrichment
.

17. The Study Guide is in
WEBCOM
2
in the tab labeled
Student
Resources. You
may
also want to
use additional information for any assignments from the
Internet.
If you do,
please remember to
cite your
source at the end of your
answer. If you add additional information from the
Internet,
this is great, but
you
must
cite sources
. This applies to photos as well
.
(
Remember that SLO and ULO are for evaluator and for
this
course to be certified and you do not have to
do anything with
them.

18. However,
they show that the assignments are aligned with the text,
WEBCOM 2 and with
the
test questions
.)
When
completing your assignment questions,
y
ou should use the text for your ans
wers
. Y
ou may
also
want to look at
the
WEBCOM
2 website
and
the PowerP
oints related to the great artists
and individuals
mentioned in Unit II
,
and the

19. colored timeline
. The timeline
show
s
historical periods. These are available in the
Student
Resources
’
ta
b
.
Do not
worry about timeline dates being exact. Different sources give
different dates
depending upon who wrote the timeline
.
Dates also overlap with time
periods,
so dates are
sometimes given as
“
approxima
te
dates
”
.
Subject
in a question
means

20. what it is
about
.
Answer all the following questions
:
1.
Explain
what makes
Giotto
an important artist
and why many
historians consider him
important in history?
Why is
Giotto
considered a
“
transitional
”
artist
?

21. (SLO2: ULO 2.3)
(
EXPLAIN
WHAT MAKES HIS WORK
SIGNIFICANT IN YOUR TWO ANSWERS
FOR #
1
)
1
Assignment Two
UNIT 2
Student Name:
______________________________________________
(Your NAME must be exactly as it is on the roll in e campus
and in WEBCOM2)
Your Section Number _____________ (you must enter your
section number)
The Unit 2 Assignment 2: Unit Two in the Textbook. ONLINE
HUMA 1315 send this to professor through
WEBCOM 2
DIRECTIONS: The assignment is in WORD. Save the document
to your computer and write your answers in the spaces given.
You may change the spacing as needed. You are also asked to
just write what your thoughts are and what you think such as

22. your
own opinion for some answers for some questions.
NOTE: Turn in assignments using WEBCOM2 Internal
Messages found under MENU in the top left corner of the site.
You may
either attach your Word file or copy and paste your entire
submission in the message box. Be thorough in your answers.
You
should use the Textbook, Essential Humanities third edition
and/or the Study Guide. The Study Guide is not mandatory;
however,
it is there for your enrichment. The Study Guide is in WEBCOM
2 in the tab labeled Student Resources. You may also want to
use additional information for any assignments from the
Internet. If you do, please remember to cite your source at the
end of your
answer. If you add additional information from the Internet, this
is great, but you must cite sources. This applies to photos as
well.
(Remember that SLO and ULO are for evaluator and for this
course to be certified and you do not have to do anything with
them. However, they show that the assignments are aligned
with the text, WEBCOM 2 and with the test questions.)
When completing your assignment questions, you should use the
text for your answers. You may also want to look at
the WEBCOM 2 website and the PowerPoints related to the
great artists and individuals mentioned in Unit II, and the
colored timeline. The timeline shows historical periods. These
are available in the Student Resources’ tab. Do not
worry about timeline dates being exact. Different sources give
different dates depending upon who wrote the timeline.
Dates also overlap with time periods, so dates are sometimes
given as “approximate dates”. Subject in a question
means what it is about. Answer all the following questions:

23. 1. Explain what makes Giotto an important artist and why many
historians consider him
important in history?
Why is Giotto considered a “transitional” artist? (SLO2: ULO
2.3)
(EXPLAIN WHAT MAKES HIS WORK SIGNIFICANT IN
YOUR TWO ANSWERS FOR #1)