In this task, you will write an analysis of one work (suggested length of 3–6 paragraphs total). Choose one work from one time period in the list of accepted works below:

Note: the one work you choose MUST be selected from only one of the periods in the list below.

Classical Period:

• Sappho [Like the very gods] ca. 7th century B.C.E. (poetry)
• Plato, Apology, ca. 399 B.C.E. (philosophy)
• Hadrian, Pantheon, ca. 118-125 C.E. (architecture)
• Phidias, Athena Parthenos, ca. 438 B.C.E. (model of the lost original sculpture)

Renaissance:

• William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116, “Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments,” 1609 (poetry)
• Christopher Marlowe, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” ca. 1599 (poetry)
• Sandro Botticelli, Primavera, ca.1470, (tempera on panel)
• Michelangelo, Pietà, 1498-1499 (sculpture)
• Josquin des Prez, Mille Regretz (French Chanson), c. 1521
• Thomas Weelkes, Sing We at Pleasure (English madrigal), c. 1598

Enlightenment:

• Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal” 1729 (satirical essay)
• Mary Wollstonecraft, Excerpt from Chapter 9 from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 1792 (essay)

NeoClassical:

• Angelica Kauffmann, Cornelia Pointing to her Children as Her Treasures, 1785, oil on canvas
• Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784, oil on canvas

Classical Music:

• W. A. Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466 – “Romanze” (second movement), 1785
• Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 94 “Surprise Symphony” (second movement), 1792

Romanticism:

• John Keats, “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be,” 1818 (poem)
• Harriet Jacobs, Chapter 1 from “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” 1861 (autobiography)
• Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa, c. 1819, oil on canvas
• Francisco de Goya, Saturn Devouring His Son, 1820-1823 (mural transferred to canvas)
• Franz Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, 1847
• Beethoven, Piano Concerto no. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 (Emperor Concerto), 1809-1811

Realism:

• Guy de Maupassant, “The Necklace,” 1884 (short story).
• Kate Chopin, “Désirée’s Baby” 1893 (short story)
• Rosa Bonheur, The Horse Fair, 1852-1855, oil on canvas
• Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Banjo Lesson, 1893, oil on canvas
• Scott Joplin, Maple Leaf Rag, 1899 (piano musical composition)
• Claude Debussy, Clair de lune (from the Suite Bergamasque), 1905, orchestral (originally a piano suite)

Requirements

A. Analyze the accepted work by doing the following:

1. Describe the historical events or innovations that characterize the period in which the work was created (suggested length of 1–2 paragraphs).

2. Analyze how this work reflects a theme or stylistic characteristic from its period (suggested length of 1–2 paragraphs).

3. Analyze the work’s or author’s/artist’s/composer’s contributions to the humanities (suggested length of 1–2 paragraphs).

B. When you use sources to support ideas and elements in a paper or project, provide acknowledgement of source information for any content that is quoted, paraphrased or summarized. Acknowledgement of source information includes in-text citation noting specifically where in the submission the source is used and a corresponding reference, which includes the following points:

• author

• date

• title

• location of information (e.g., publisher, journal, website URL)

C. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

APA Format please