What has been written about your object? What are the arguments? Who are the scholars who have addressed it? Who do you agree with? Disagree with? Why? What purpose did your object serve?

Inlaid Box for the Portuguese Market

Students will write a 1000-word paper on the meaning and significance of their object both in the past and to the field of art history.

-What has been written about your object? What are the arguments? Who are the scholars who have addressed it? Who do you agree with? Disagree with? Why?

-What purpose did your object serve?

-What may its original viewers have seen/thought about it?

-How does your object relate to other works of art? Is it copying another style or type of object? Are there other objects or styles that were inspired by it? Are there other artworks that can tell us something about yours?