A comparative analysis of two works of art of your choice selected from the Permanent Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art viewed on the museum website.

Description

You will write a comparative analysis of two works of art of your choice selected from the Permanent Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art viewed on the museum website. The two artworks chosen should united by a theme and should fall within the dates and cultures covered in this course (1300 CE to 1900 CE). The two art works should also be from two different cultures to provide a nice contrast.

Use the Met search engine to select your works. (Links to an external site.)

You will discuss the works in light of ONE of the following topics or from a topic of your own design

1. Power, Politics, and Glory (includes political and military leaders, war scenes, or art about peace)

2. Social Constructions of Gender (which can include art depicting couples, sex and sexuality, fertility, and offspring)

3. The Body (includes portraits, self-portraits, sickness and death)

4. Class (includes art that depicts luxuries of the ruling class, workers at work, the plight of the poor)

5. Renaissance versus The Baroque

6. The Academy v. avant-garde

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