In a 3 page essay, discuss, from your readings, what you consider the three most innovative artworks or buildings from the Prehistoric Period through the Late Gothic / Proto-Renaissance Period (30,000 BCE to the 1300s CE) (chapters 1 through 14 of Gardner’s Art Through the Ages). Your three choices must come from the course textbook and the works we studied in class. You can choose any work from your Homework lists.

Answer the following questions in a well crafted essay (that includes an Introduction, Body and Conclusion).

1) Why do you consider them the most innovative works? What about them is innovative?

2) How did they influence later artists? Who were the later artists that they influenced?

Describe and explain each of your choices fully (including their formal elements). Include specific artists, titles, dates and styles, and use terms from your textbook to illustrate your points.