Artists give us visual clues about the characters they create and the stories they communicate Look carefully at the painting The Entombment by Peter Paul Rebens for 45 seconds. Then choose one character from the artwork, and describe the details you notice that correspond to each of the categories below:
Character  _______________________________________________
Pose  ___________________________________________________
Hands  __________________________________________________
Facial expression  _________________________________________
Costume  _______________________________________________
Who do you think your character is? What could his or her role in the story be?  ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Look at the arrangement of the figures in the work of art. What do their poses tell you about the story? What do their poses tell you about their relationship to each other?  ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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