Humanities

you wrote an analysis on a piece of literature. In this task, you will write an analysis (suggested length of 35 pages) of one work from the disciplines of visual art or music. Choose one work from the list below:

Classical Period
Art:

    Exekias, Achilles and Ajax Playing a Dice Game(Athenian black-figure amphora), ca. 540530 BCE

    Praxiteles, The Aphrodite of Cnidus (Knidos) c. 350 BCE

    Alexandros of Antioch, Venus de Milo, between 130100 BCE

    Apollodorus of Damascus, Trajans Column, c. 107 CE

    After Leochares, Apollo Belvedere, c. 120 CE

    Agesander, Athenodorus, and Polydorus of Rhodes, The Laocon Group, Late 2nd Century
 

Renaissance
Art:

    Leonardo da Vinci, Annunciation, c. 1472

    Titian, Bacchus and Ariadne, c,1520

    Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors, 1533

    Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Queen Elizabeth I (Ditchley Portrait), c. 1592
 

Music:

    Josquin des Prez, Mille Regretz (French Chanson), c. 1521

    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Sicut Cervus(motet), c. 1581

    Thomas Morley, Now is the Month of Maying, 1595

    John Farmer, Fair Phyllis (English Madrigal) 1599
 

NeoClassical (Art) / Classical (Music)
Art:

    Antonio Canova, Psyche Revived by Cupids Kiss, c. 1777

    Jacques Louis David, The Death of Socrates, 1787

    Sir John Soane, Bank of England, 17881833

    Ingres, La Grande Odalisque, 1814
 

Music:

    W.A. Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466 Romanze (second movement), 1785

    W.A. Mozart, Overture to The Marriage of Figaro K. 492, 1786

    Franz Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 94 in G Major (Surprise), 1792

    Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67,Allegro con brio (first movement), 18041808
 

Romanticism
Art:

    Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781

    John Constable, The Hay Wain, 1821

    Eugene Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus, 1827

    J.M.W. Turner, Slave Ship, 1840
 

Music:

    Franz Schubert, Erlking D.328 (Lied), 1815

    Hector Berlioz, Dream of the Witches Sabbathfrom Symphonie fantastique, 1830

    Clara Schumann, 4 pieces fugitives, Op.15, 1853

    Bedrich Smetana, The Moldau from M Vlast, 1874
 

Realism
Art:

    Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849

    Rosa Bonheur, The Horse Fair, 1852-1855

    James Whistler, Arrangement in Grey and Black, No.1: Portrait of the Artist’s Mother, 1871

    douard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergre, 1882
 

Music:

    Stephen Foster, Old Folks at Home,1851

    John Philip Sousa, The Stars and Stripes Forever, 1896-97

    Giacomo Puccini, Madama Butterfly, 1904

    Julia Ward Howe, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, 1862
 

Use the link near the bottom of this page to access direct links to the works listed above.

Once you have selected and viewed the work, you will create a paragraph of descriptive writing with your personal observations about the work. This paragraph must be written before you do research on the work, the artist or composer, and the period it comes from. You will need to be detailed in your description of the work.

The next step will be to research the work, the life of the artist, and the period. You will then be ready to create your analysis. This process of analysis will require you to discuss the historical context of the work, pertinent aspects of the artists or composers biography, themes and/or stylistic characteristics of its historical period and finally, the relevance of this work for audiences today.

The final requirement of the task will be to reflect on this process and describe how the analysis informed or altered your perception of the work.