Explore in your essay: How does the style and shape of the object or building:
Can you reveal the artistic / architectural influences of your example?
Try to relate the iconography in the example to the purpose of the object or building?
To do this, please explain what iconography is present and what did it mean to viewers of the time?
Describe your examples with specific details. For example, Napoleon’s cape in his portrait is not just “very colorful,” but uses a bold Crimson red! From there: What symbolic details can be related to this color here? Describe how the use of color and brushwork affect the emotional quality of the illustration is it energetic? somber?
