question archive Select one work of art from List A, and another from List B, and write a compare and contrast essay of the two works focusing on at least two of the following issues: the expression of political power and ideals the manifestation of religious concepts and dogma the continuation of the five major characteristics of the Italian Renaissance Be sure to discuss (and compare and contrast) how the works of art either do or do not express similar ideas in those areas, and explain why they would or would not, with specific reference to the social, cultural, economic, political or religious environment in which they were made and used
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Select one work of art from List A, and another from List B, and write a compare and contrast essay of the two works focusing on at least two of the following issues:
Be sure to discuss (and compare and contrast) how the works of art either do or do not express similar ideas in those areas, and explain why they would or would not, with specific reference to the social, cultural, economic, political or religious environment in which they were made and used.
List A
The Witches, by Hans Baldung Grien (1510)
Knight, Death, and the Devil, by Albrecht Durer (1513)
Erasmus of Rotterdam, by Hans Holbein (1523)
Portrait of Sir Thomas More, by Hans Holbein (1527)
Martin Luther, by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1532)
Nymph of the Spring, by Lucas Cranach the Younger (1545 - 50)
Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind, by Peter Brueghel (1568)
List B
Madonna of the Harpies, by Andrea del Sarto (1517)
The Visitation, by Pontormo (1528)
Portrait of Andrea Doria as Neptune, by Bronzino (c. 1530s - 1540s)
Odysseus and Penelope, by Francesco Primataccio (1563)
Florentine (aka Bandini) Pieta, by Michelangelo (1547 -55)
Vertumnus, by Guiseppi Archimboldo (1591)
The Last Supper, by Tintoretto (1592 - 94)