Painting: Jan Van Eyck, Man in a Red Turban
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Topic: Jan Van Eyck, Man in a Red Turban, London, National Gallery.
The research project is a 6-page paper (double-space, 12 points font, 5 full pages of text) on a European work of art or architecture (1400-1600). In the first part of the research paper (1 page) you present the work under investigation providing the pertinent art historical and contextual information. In the rest of your paper you offer a formal analysis of the work, discuss its patronage and the iconography — if a painting or a sculpture — or its style, material and technical features if a work of architecture and formulate your own thesis and/or interpretation about the work under examination.
Your paper should include pertinent bibliographical references — either as footnotes or endnotes. Please also notice that you should include 3 pertinent bibliographical references published in the last fifty years (one book and two articles on the topic; please notice that text-books or manuals on Italian Renaissance art are not valid references).