Historical context examines the history of art, a person, or possibly an occurrence in a time that had direct emotional impact on an individual or the world. Analyzing historical context provides insight and a deeper understanding on any past situation that occurred during a specific time. Historical context helps provide awareness to the person or an event the philosophies, state of being, evidences, and personalities that existed during a past time in history. In easier terms, historical context contributes to understanding the cause and effect about an era, a historical person, a political event, or any other part of history. The answers to “who, what, when, where, and why”.
