Compare & Contrast (100pts.) Choose one question and answer it in a 2½ to 3 page essay. Essays should be fully developed and presented as formal, academic essays, ie: thesis paragraph followed by supporting analysis and a final conclusion. Essays should be double-spaced and at least 500 words in length. Be sure to identify compare artists , medium, style, technique, thematic concerns, (subject), and historical and cultural context, (influences that shape meaning).
Compare and contrast Rogier van der Weyden's oil panel triptych, Deposition, 1435, created for the high altar of Notre-Dame hors-les-murs in Louvain, France, with Leonardo da Vinci's fresco work, The Last Supper, painted during 1495-98 on the refectory wall of Santa Maria della Grazia in Milan, Italy. Be sure to consider style, technique and historical context paying particular attention to the compositional structure, the location and expression of the figures within that structure, and how each work uses these compositional devices to achieve very different ends.