Art and Death In the history of art, which spans from around 1300 to around 1840, the beauty and power of death has had a great impact on the art world for many people all over the world. Art is said to be the combination of human imagination and human ability to create a 2D image or something 3D. It is often with the intention of creating something beautiful, symbolic, religious, expressive, functional and/or timeless. We study art for many different reasons which include to be "visually literate" in a complex world, to be a well-educated part of the "liberal arts", to understand world history, world cultures and aesthetics, to seek to understand the creative impulse and promote the human psyche and ultimately to look at beautiful things. Various art forms are constantly depicted and looked at through the human eye and explained through the artist and the way the viewer sees them. Each eye may have a different view of the artwork and have multiple explanations for what the artwork might entail. We talk about the works of art with the color, the texture, the shape, what they are made of, what they are made of, the meaning behind them, how they were made or assembled, what the medium is, what country it is from and what the format. of it is.When I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, New York, I was amazed by all the compelling and powerful works of art in the Art and Death section. I didn't realize how compelling the art and craft of death were. Three specific paintings stood out to me out of all the paintings I had seen. The paintings were, the “Tobias burying the dead”, by Andrea di Lyon, “The Lamentation” by Ludovico Caracci, and the “Pietà”, b...... middle of paper ......tsin work in stone, wood, ivory, precious metals decorated with enamel and precious stones, sacred art. French Renaissance art is seen primarily through the work of the Mannerists, which is a creative movement that was strongly fascinated by the new rules of perspective proposed by Italian painters with the giant strides made in the studies of biology and anatomy (French Renaissance art) . I believe that the three works I chose from the MetropolitanMuseum of Art best represent the theme of art and death. My favorite is “The Lamentation” by Ludovico Caracci. I think it best represents art and death in the way Christ is laid out and positioned. His position is so creative and creates in my mind the thought of struggle and desperation regarding death. The artwork is so beautiful in the way Virgo holds it.