Module 8: Reading and Video Quiz

Instructions

For this week’s reading and video quiz, I’d like you to write a one-page reflection in response to the mini-series The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance. What that series does, and arguably does very well, is “animate” the Renaissance, turning the past into a form of the vibrant present where everything is done, experienced, and shown has a connection to the “plot” in the lives of the Medici and their contemporaries in Renaissance Florence. A major “player” in that “plot”, represented and shown in multiple iterations and throughout the mini-series, is simply none other than the art itself.

So for this quiz, I’d like you to select a particular work of art from the mini-series and write a page about how that work of art is, in a very interesting way, part of the larger “plot” of the docu-drama of the Medici and their contemporaries. You can choose anything that falls into the broad category of art and visual/material culture, so your choice could be a “conventional” work of art (like a painting, sculpture, or a building) or you could step a good bit beyond “convention” and choose some aspect of visual/material culture from Renaissance Florence that you see and is featured in one way or the other in the “plot” of the mini-series. Feel free to be quite adventurous and “out there” with this one, even surprising in the object that you choose and make a case for how it play an important, significant, or even pivotal role in a particular aspect or the larger story and drama and the Medici (for example, you could choose the knife that is used to kill Giuliano de’ Medici at the most dramatic moment of the Pazzi Conspiracy against the Medici). You get the point: be on the look out for interesting examples, perhaps even examples that might otherwise seem insignificant but that you give significance to in your writing. I look forward to your one-pagers on this!

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