Discuss your personal sense of the past in relation to one favorite work that you have experienced repeatedly from your hometown or another place you have visited often over the years and consider significant in your life

Discuss your personal sense of the past in relation to one favorite work that you have experienced repeatedly from your hometown or another place you have visited often over the years and consider significant in your life. Your example could be a building, sculpture, any sort of monument, mural, painting, etc.  Address all of the following in a well-constructed and proofread essay.

1. Begin with an opening paragraph that summarizes the location, date, name of the piece, maker (if known) your personal relationship to it and reason for selecting it. 

2. Using specific terms learned in class, describe precisely the appearance of the work along with its setting and relate it to works seen this semester, if relevant. I should be able to visualize it accurately from your description. What materials (stone, etc.) and colors are used?  How large is it?  What is its setting? 

3. When did you first encounter the work? What appeals to you about it?  How has your relationship to it changed over the years? How does it impact your sense of the past?

4. Which of the themes (religion, commemoration, etc.) discussed –  or not yet discussed –

 during the semester does the work invoke? Name any other themes that come to mind, too