Melodrama encouraged the development of realistic spectacle

Consider Daguerre's Le Boulevard du Temple. Discuss the reason that this image is important to the history of photography and the difficulties inherent in the production of this image

What will be an ideal response?

For Closer Look: Holbein’s The Ambassadors: The painting was commissioned as a portrait, but its allegorical content renders it far more complex than most portraiture. How does this complexity underscore its humanist principles, and why would the two ambassadors want to present themselves in humanist terms?

What will be an ideal response?