The student can find in every question indications about the value attributed to every part of it:

1) Describe the linked image in no more than twenty lines, indicating first of all the name of the artist and the subject of the painting (0 – 0,5) and explaining what idea of time is correlated with this art work (0 – 1).

2) Describe the linked image in no more than twenty lines, indicating first of all the name of the artist and the subject of the painting (0 – 0,5) and explaining what idea of time is correlated with this art work (0 – 1).

3) Choose the correct proposition between the following ones (0-0,5): a. The triumph of Death is a Baroque subject born after the Council of Trento in 1543. b. The triumph of Death is a Medieval subject born after the Black Death (1348). c. The triumph of Death is a Medieval subject representing a black angel with a sword. d. The triumph of Death is a Baroque subject representing a skeleton riding a horse.

4) Choose the correct proposition between the following ones (0-0,5): a. Clocks in XVIII century were precious objects, considered part of decorative arts, several times created following projects of important artists. b. Clocks in XVIII century didn’t exist. c. Clocks in XVIII century was created only to be put in big rooms in which noble people met their guests. d. Clocks in XVIII century were worn from noble people on their arm.

5) What theme correlated with time is painted in an important painting by Sandro Botticelli (0 – 0,5) and in what historical period (0 – 0,5)?

6) What Spanish artist painted in XIX century the myth of Cronos (0 – 0,5) and why Cronos was represented while he was eating a person (0 – 0,5)?

7) Why in the second half of the XVIII century young people began to practise the Grand Tour (no more than five lines, 0 – 1)?

GUIDE TO ANSWER

1) Find your answer in the page “The ages of human life”

2) Find your answer in the page “Vanitas”

3) Find your answer in the page “The thriumph of Death”

4) Find your answer in the page “Clocks and watches instruments of time”

5) Find your answer in the page “The Seasons and the months”

6) Find your answer in the page “The myth of Cronos”

7) Find your answer in the page “The memory of history”

GUIDE TO VALUE

The student can totalize a maximum of 7/7:

0 – 1: The student almost didn’t understand the subject at all, he has no memory of what he read about it.

1,5 – 2,5: The student didn’t understand the subject, he owns notions at a very low level.

3 – 4: The student understood the subject in part, but not properly, he owns notions at a low level.

4,5 – 5,5: The student understood the subject properly, he owns correct notions about it.

6 – 7: The student understood the subject, he owns correct notions about it and correct abilities in describing the art works he studied.