Grossmont College Work Imagery Museum Exhibition Summary

Select 5 specific works that you would like to include in your imaginary exhibition. Each artwork should come from a different time period or geographic region. Showcase the persistence of a certain theme across time and place.

Instructions

Provide a link for each artwork (link must take to where it appears on the museum website). The selected artworks must be relevant to the material, geographic scope, and time periods of our course, which is Western art from the Stone Age through the Medieval era found in the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and Europe.

Each of 5 objects/artworks/monuments must come from a different era or topic covered in class, according to the following list:

• Stone Age
• Ancient Mesopotamia and/or Persia
• Ancient Egypt
• Prehistoric Aegean
• Ancient Greece
• Etruscans
• Roman Empire
• Late Antiquity (anywhere in Europe or the Middle East)
• Byzantine Empire
• Islamic World (anywhere between Western Europe and Central Asia)
• Early Medieval Europe
• Romanesque
• Gothic

Please provide your selections, links, and explanation in a bullet point list, like this:

• Selection 1: Title, Artist (if known), Media, Date/Date Range, Country/Culture of Origin,
  • Selection 1: link to museum here
• Selection 2: Title, Artist (if known), Media, Date/Date Range, Country/Culture of Origin,
  • Selection 2: link to museum here
• Selection 3: Title, Artist (if known), Media, Date/Date Range, Country/Culture of Origin,
  • Selection 3: link to museum here
• Selection 4: Title, Artist (if known), Media, Date/Date Range, Country/Culture of Origin,
  • Selection 4: link to museum here
• Selection 5: Title, Artist (if known), Media, Date/Date Range, Country/Culture of Origin,
  • Selection 5: link to museum here
• Summary of why these works should be in a museum exhibition together (one sentence

•  (Links to an external site.)“>The J. Paul Getty Museum (Links to an external site.), especially the collections on  (Links to an external site.)“>Antiquities (Links to an external site.),  (Links to an external site.)“>Manuscripts (Links to an external site.), and more! (Los Angeles, CA)
•  (Links to an external site.)“>The Louvre Museum (Links to an external site.)(Paris, France)
•  (Links to an external site.)“>The Acropolis Museum (Links to an external site.) (Athens, Greece)
•  (Links to an external site.)“>Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Links to an external site.) (Berlin, Germany)
•  (Links to an external site.)“>The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Links to an external site.) (New York City, NY)
• The British Museum (London, UK)