Journals are private writing spaces where students reflect on one of the topics

Journals are private writing spaces where students reflect on one of the topics they are studying during that week in an (approx.) 400-word response. Journals are informal, but should be well-written and carefully answer the question provided. Instructions for each journal are given in the dropbox assignment area.
Please respond in all your own words, using no quotes, through careful paraphrasing.
Week 4 (Chapter 9) Journal Instructions
Descriiption: Students are role-playing this week! You will assume the role of someone from the 15th-17th centuries who has come into contact with cultures different from her or his own and write a compare/contrast letter about two (2) works of art, one from Europe and one from a country Europeans encountered as described in Chapter 9.
Objective: to compare one western and one non-western work of art, (NOT 2 non-western works) in a letter home. One work of art will be from Europe and the other will be from indigenous people in the Americas, Africa, Australia, or works of art from Asia, India, etc.
Instructions:
You will write a letter entirely in your own words. You may use minimal quotes offset with quotation marks and citations (quotes are not required).
Picking your Art Works for Comparison:
Imagine you have been on an adventure as an explorer during the 15th-17th centuries. Write a letter home to a friend, loved one, or person of importance (monarch, pope/bishop, a wealthy ruling middle class merchant, etc.) that provides a compare/contrast analysis of Western (Europe) and Non-Western Arts from this era. Non-Western can include art from indigenous people in the Americas, Africa, Australia, Asia, or India.
You need to pick works of art from the same medium so you can compare the formal elements. For example, an oil painting from Europe and a painted silk scroll from China would be viable selections for your comparison (2 paintings). Compare an Italian church to a Muslim mosque (2 buildings), for example. A sculpture from Mesoamerica and a sculpture from Germany could be compared.
If this is unclear to you, please ask for clarification.
The Letter:
First, identify your works clearly for your reader – be sure to mention the title, the artist, culture, and the date as well. Tell your reader early in the letter why you’ve chosen to compare these two works. Justify your selections.
Then, compare the formal elements of art like line, line direction, color, medium, texture, symmetry, proportion, perspective, etc. of each work of art. Spend time looking closely at your selections of art so you can clearly discuss 2-3 of the formal elements.
You should also discuss the purpose of the works and thematic elements as well. Consider: what is each work used for in its context? Who is the audience? How does this compare between the two? Do the works reveal cross-cultural encounters?
As you write your letter, include information from the relevant chapters this week that references dates, technologies, locations, travel, cultures, and much more. Be sure to cite Fiero and provide a page number in your in-text citation.
Provide as many descriiptions as you can since the recipient of your letter won’t ever see photographs or videos of these places since these technologies haven’t been invented yet. Describe how you feel, based on what you learned about culture and context in the reading, and what the locations looks, sound, and smell like. Remember, it’s a compare/contrast analysis, but you are also trying to write a letter through the perspective of a 15th/16th/17th century traveler and explorer.
Please post a word count at the bottom of your Journal.