PAU History of Art (Extremadura) study guide
PAU History of Art (Extremadura) · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The PAU History of Art paper in Extremadura is the art-history option within the university access exam taken by students in the region, and it is also useful to private candidates and adult learners returning to study. It is a written examination in which you answer on works reproduced in the exam paper itself: you identify and analyse images, define terms, and develop a longer essay on a movement, period or artist. The PAU History of Art (Extremadura) study guide has 7 sections and about 2,600 words.
01Ancient and Classical Art: Near East, Greece and Rome
Ancient and Classical art covers the Near East, Archaic and Classical Greece and Rome. The Extremadura PAU paper rarely asks for pure description: it asks you to identify the work, name materials and structural solutions, then explain how form serves religion, politics or engineering.
398 words, about 2 min02Medieval Art: Early Christian, Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic and Islamic
Medieval art covers Early Christian and Byzantine art, the Islamic tradition, Romanesque and Gothic. The exam tests plan types, structural systems, iconography and, above all, how building form answers liturgy, relic pilgrimage and monastic life.
368 words, about 2 min03Renaissance and Mannerism
The Renaissance section runs from Brunelleschi to the Mannerist crisis of the 1520s-1580s. The exam asks you to identify works, explain linear perspective and proportion, and read the shift from Quattrocento experiment to Cinquecento classicism and then to Mannerist artificiality.
358 words, about 2 min04Baroque and Rococo
1600-1750) and Rococo (c. 1730-1770) test your ability to read theatricality, naturalism and persuasive staging, and to separate Roman, Flemish, Dutch, French and Central European strands.
366 words, about 2 min05Nineteenth-Century Art: Neoclassicism to Post-Impressionism
This domain follows European art from c. 1780 to 1900 through five movements.
355 words, about 2 min06Twentieth-Century Art: Avant-Gardes and Later Movements
The twentieth-century section moves from the historical avant-gardes (c. 1905-1939) to post-1945 movements and Modern Movement architecture.
359 words, about 2 min07Spanish Art and Extremaduran Artistic Heritage
This section combines the Spanish canon with the regional heritage the Extremadura paper can legitimately ask about: Merida, the Guadalupe monastery, Caceres, Yuste, and Extremaduran painters. Answers score when you can date the work, name the patron, and link it to the peninsular context.
396 words, about 2 min