The Garden of Earthly Delights Essay

Consider the Pieta, The Garden of Earthly Delights, The Forbidden City, and Equiano’s Interesting Narrative. What view of an ideal society did each advocate for, and how did this connect them to the eras/civilizations from which they arose?

• Addresses the notion of the ideal during each of the eras covered by the question
• Places each artifact in its proper era/civilization
• Points to specific elements of the content/appearance of each of the primary source artifacts/documents
• Explains how each primary source artifact/document makes an argument for a particular view of what is ideal
• Connects the primary source artifacts/documents with their civilizations’ notion of the ideal
• Is between 500 and 700 words in length
• Quotes no material other than that available in the linked primary source documents
• Includes quotation marks around any material quoted from the primary source documents
• Is, aside from quotations from the primary source documents, entirely in my own words
• Is written in third person
• Has been edited for grammar and typographical errors
  Sources(you can add more but need to use this):
  https://smarthistory.org/the-forbidden-city/