Themes in Art History + Understanding Formal Analysis:

1. Sacred Space

2. Images of Power/Authority and Rule/Propaganda

3. Objects of Wealth and Status

4. Ritual Objects of Belief

5. Funereal Traditions, Death

6. War and Violence

7. Images of Identity - cultural, social, political

8. Issues of Gender - masculine and feminine

9. The Natural World

10. Materials and their Symbolic Importance

11. Visual / Conceptual

12. The Ideal

13. Individual vs. the Collective

14. Humanist Tradition

15. The Human Body

16. Innovation: Materials & Techniques

17. Change over time

18. Sacred / Profane

19. Social Commentary (began 18th c.)

20. Narrative Art

21. Artist as Subject

22. Propaganda

23. Individual and Society

24. Diversity