Gothic painting (Thursday December 17th)

A) Describe each painting (do not forget:  be + V-ing; in the background/ foreground etc., the colours, shadows...)

B)Explain why they illustrate the Gothic style.

C) Which one do you prefer? Justify. 

D) Browse the web to choose a Gothic painting and explain the common points you find between your  picture and the documents studied in class.

 

1.  "The Day of His Wrath", John Martin, 1851

2.  Philip James De Loutherbourg, “Visitor to a Moonlit Churchyard”, 1790

 

3.  “Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers”, Henry Fuseli,  1812