• Analyze each piece of artwork closely, paying attention to the genre, artist, and individual elements of the piece.

• Provide evidence (similar to performing a “close reading” of a literary text) to support your argument about how each artwork reflects its theme and historic context.

• Include a minimum of six sources, in addition to the sayre text. The two works of art chosen are: "the triumph of death" - painting by bruegel "the elder" pieter "sistine chapel's ceiling" - painted by Michelangelo