Directions: Please answer the questions below in complete sentences using APA guidelines. Your response to each should be at least 300 words in length. Utilize examples from the textbook, if applicable.
1. What does a dragon symbolize in Chinese art? Use examples from specific artworks to illustrate.
2. What makes Shen Zhou's Poet on a Mountaintop such an excellent example of literati painting during the Ming dynasty?
3. Describe the innovation of the westwork. How does it relate to and differ from Roman and Early Christian architecture?
4. Discuss the purposes of Christian art using examples to illustrate your points.
5. Describe the evolution that occurred during the Gothic age in church naves, towers, vaults, and windows.
6. Contrast the two Virgin and Child Enthroned paintings by Cimabue and Giotto. What are their similarities and differences? Who was more important to the future of painting and why?