Write an essay of 3-4 pages that analyzes the significance of one to three artifacts—a sculpture, fresco, painting, work of architecture, piece of literature, music—covered in this course. In selecting your topic and developing a claim about it, think about the topic’s value as an example of the specific cultural movement from which it originated and its relevance to Western culture and to the humanities in general. Along this line of thinking you may explain how a work of art, architecture, music, or sculpture is still copied to this day and make a direct comparison between the work and a modern work. You could then use the following example of a thesis statement as a template for your own: