In today’s class, we spent time in the museum looking at paintings and artifacts that we could use for our take-home exam. All of the items were from the Baroque period, though I think some were better representations than others. Jacques Courtois Bourguignon’s paintings stuck out to me as being good representations of the period. Particually his Battle Scene (with riderless horse) stuck out to me and is the painting that I chose for part 1 of the exam.
I generally enjoyed our time in the museum, where we got to see close-up examples of what we had been studying over the past few weeks.