Monday 19th Nov '18.

LEAVING CERT'S - PLEASE COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING PAST EXAM PAPER Q. 2017 Q.16
 NEXT MONDAY 26TH NOV. 

ANYONE WHO HAS NOT YET HANDED IN THE 2018 OL ART GALLERY Q. PLEASE HAND IN TOMORROW.

PLEASE ALSO ADD IN THE REMAINING NOTES ON CHARTRES CATHEDRAL AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE - ALSO FOR MONDAY 26TH NOV.



2017 Q. 16.  H.L

Galleries, museums and interpretive centres are designed to display artefacts and often employ many techniques to inform and educate the viewer. Discuss this statement with reference to any named gallery, museum or interpretive centre you have visited. 

In your answer discuss two named works and refer to the techniques used to inform and educate the viewer about them.

 and 

Describe and discuss how you would display the following artefacts in a gallery setting: • a pair of gold earrings • an A4 watercolour painting, framed under glass • a life-size figurative sculpture. 

Illustrate your answer. 




PLEASE WRITE THE FOLLOWING NOTES ON CHARTRES CATHEDRAL INTO YOUR NOTES COPIES.

· Chartres was one of the first large buildings to utilize the full potential of flying buttresses.  There are three levels of them along the nave.  At the first level they take the form of a simple arch; the next level is connected by small columns arranged like spokes of a wheel; a third layer of arches stretch from the top of the buttresses to just below the gutter of the upper nave.

Interior: The interior is built in the shape of a cross, with a central aisle and transepts forming the arms.  The sheer size is breathtaking.  The spacious nave is the widest in France and offers an unbroken view from the western door towards the magnificent apse in the east.  Clustered slender columns soar dramatically upwards to support the vib vaulting and direct the eye to the massive upper level clerestory windows within them.  These, in combination with the three large rose windows over the west door and both transcepts, further intensify the feeling.


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