Analyzing Figure 6: St. Michael Weighing Souls

Symmetry can be found in many places or anyone in life. Symmetry makes a place or painting balanced. In the reading, I choose to analyze figure 6 which is St. Michael Weighing Souls. In the painting, you can tell it has a lot of symmetry present. When a painting isn't balanced well enough you can feel a sense of unbalancedness or one side being too heavy. Either by have too much on the other side or not enough. But in figure six you don't feel that heaviness anywhere because it is well balanced. For example in the painting of St. Michael Weighing Souls there are two things that make the painting balanced. In the painting, the person is holding a scale below and needed something above to make it balance and being symmetric he is holding a sword