Assignment at the Frick Collection:  On Sundays, pay what you wish from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The price of admission includes Acoustiguide audio tour.
This report takes the form of a "Treasure Hunt"

- Visit the entire collection first. Wander around, look for paintings you'd like to use for the essays, from either the Frick or the Met. You will receive a map when you enter the collection.  Each room has a name and a number. Take notes on the map so you can find the paintings again.

AP Essay Questions: (Use paintings from either the Frick Collection, or the Met Museum.)

essay 1:  Select two portrait paintings (NOT SELF PORTRAITS), from either the Frick or the Met, each of a single individual by different artists, and from different periods.  Identify each work by title and artist.  How does each work reflect the stylistic tendency of the artist's own time?  Compare and contrast how each artist portrays the person's individuality. 

essay 2.  Select two paintings, one before 1800 and one after 1800, in which the artist has depicted the daily life of her or his own time as the subject.  Identify each work by artist and title and compare the ways in which the artists depict the subject matter.

-  Write answers to the questions below, using short phrases, while you are visiting the Frick Collection.  Turn in this handwritten worksheet as section 2 of your report.

1. Garden Court     Respond to the experience of just sitting there quietly for a couple of minutes.

2. West Gallery:    Which painting in this gallery is the most painterly?  Explain why you selected it as painterly. (visible brush strokes)

3. See Veronese’s Wisdom & Strength and Choice of Hercules.
Describe the Mannerist qualities in terms of surface treatment, painterly vs. linear, use of color, composition, theme.

4. Compare Rembrandt’s  Self Portrait to Bronzino’s Portrait of Ludovico Capponi.

5. Living Hall:   See the 2 Titians. El Greco’s St. Jerome and Bellini’s Ecstasy of St. Francis. Respond to seeing each of these 4 works in person.

6. South Hall:  See 2 paintings by Vermeer.   List titles.  Write a one-line description for each.

7. Fragonard Room:  Discuss the theme of these panels.

8. Anteroom:   See El Greco’s Expulsion from the Temple  and Van Eyck’s Virgin & Child with
 Saints & Donors. What are the distinguishing characteristics of these works in terms of
surface quality, composition, perspective, landscape.

9. West Vestibule:  What is the subject of Boucher’s 4 paintings
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10. Boucher Room:  The 8 panels of Arts & Sciences  originally decorated the library of Madame de Pompadour’s chateau and were bought to decorate the boudoir of Mrs. Frick on the 2nd floor of this house.  Showing children in adult occupations was a popular “conceit” in rococo painting.  Identify as many of the occupations as you can.
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11. Find  Rembrandt’s Polish Rider.  List some theories about what this painting might signify. (may require research)

12. Dining Room:   Look at the decorative art in this room as well as the portraits. 

What is on the mantel?  ___________________________________________________________________

Locate 2 very tall Chinese covered vases from the Ch’ing Dynasty, decorated in the “Famille Rose” pattern. 
What else in this room has the same pattern? _____________________________________________________

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13. Who was Henry Clay Frick and how is it is we are visiting his house and his art collection?  (may require research)

What does his story tell you about the times in which he amassed his fortune? (may require research)

14. Personal Responses:  
Which paintings were your favorites? 

Why? 

What did you find surprising? 

What interested, impressed, or otherwise engaged you in this visit?