AH 132 - Northern Renaissance Art

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Eastern Connecticut State University

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Description:

This course surveys the arts of painting, printmaking, and sculpture in the northern and southern Netherlands, Germany, and France from 1400 to 1600.Students consider the work of major masters such as Jan van Eyck, Hieronymus Bosch, Albrecht Dürer, and Pieter Bruegel as well as the development of certain themes - the depiction of popular proverbs, landscape scenes, and scenes of daily life, for example - that were particularly popular in northern art.The course emphasizes the relationship of the arts to the rest of society.Students examine works in local collections and travel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which has a superb collection of northern Renaissance art.Previously listed as AH 230.Three credits

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3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.easternct.edu/

Phone Number:

(860) 465-5000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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