ARTH 3720 | Student Exhibitions in Northern Renaissance Art | Spring 2024

Students in Professor Rachel Wise’s Northern Renaissance Art class, spring semester 2024, curated their own virtual exhibition of fifteen to twenty-five works of art of diverse media from the Northern Renaissance (ca. 1380–1568). Focused on a theme of their choosing, their exhibitions explored their chosen topic from multiple angles.

Description

This exhibition assignment consisted of four parts: first, they pitched their exhibition idea in the form of a proposal, written for an audience of museum curators. They then compiled an exhibition checklist, which included the so-called “tombstone” information of their pieces (artist, title, date, dimensions, location). To accompany their exhibition, they wrote an essay, where they analyzed two works from their exhibition through the lens of their theme. Lastly, they presented their exhibition to the class in the form of a PowerPoint, where they “hung” and “installed” their works, choosing a color and design scheme tailored to their theme.

Recognition

Among a collective of excellent projects this semester, Catie Yocom and Ali Thomas deserve recognition for their exceptional work. Catie Yocom designed Gemstones of the Northern Renaissance, which featured extant jeweled objects as well as depictions of gemstones in religious and secular contexts. (Figs. 1 and 2) Ali Thomas’s exhibition, Dragons, Unicorns, and Hybrids: Mythical Creatures of the Renaissance, displayed rooms featuring unicorns, hybrid creatures, and dragons. (Figs. 3 and 4)