write five (I-V) SHORT comparison essays with each essay comparing and contrasting 2 works using the principles of FORM and CONTENT on the work. (I) 14TH CENTURY ITALIAN ART 1) Duccio''s "Madonna and Child" ca. 1300 2) Giotto''s "The Epiphany" ca. 1320 (II) 15TH CENTURY ART IN NORTHERN EUROPE AND SPAIN 1) Jan van Eyck''s "The Crucifixion; The Last Judgement" ca. 1430 2) Rogier van der Weyden''s "Francesco d''Este" ca. 1460 (III) 15TH CENTURY ITALIAN ART 1) Andrea Mantegna''s "The Adoration of the Shepherds" c. 1450 2) Botticelli''s "The Annunciation" ca. 1485 (LC) (IV) HIGH RENAISSANCE AND MANNERISM 1) Titian''s "Venus and the Lute Player" ca. 1565-70 2) Paolo Veronese''s "Mars and Venus United by Love" (V) AGE OF REFORMATION 16TH CENTURY ART (N. EUR/SPAIN) 1) Pieter Bruegel the Elder''s "The Harvesters" 1565 2) El Greco''s "Portrait of a Cardinal" ca. 1600 Discuss how each artist''s choice of formal elements expresses the meaning and emotional content of the subject. CONTENT- (a)SUBJECT MATTER, NARRATIVE: describe and explain the characters and actions, does the work tell a story? (b)EMOTION: how do the figures in the work seem to be feeling and behaving? what emotional response do you have toward them? (c)SYMBOLISM: what beliefs, ideas, or concepts does the subject symbolize in the culture from which the work comes? FORM (a)COMPOSITION: space, line, geometry, perspective, symmetry or asymmetry, static/dynamic shapes and actions, visual point of view (b)FIGURES: poses, proportions, scale (c)COLOR & LIGHT: hue, value (light & dark), intensity (pure colors vs. gray), chiaroscuro (d)MATERIALS/MEDIUM: brushwork, texture; oil vs. tempers THIS WOULD NEED TO BE COMPLETED NO LATER THAN 11A.M. SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2008. PLEASE NOTIFY ME IF THIS WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE THIS ISN''T A TERM PAPER, JUST ESSAYS, YOU COULD KEEP IT BASIC