The Romance Languages and Literatures 485 - Senior Seminar:Poets on Paintings/Paintings on Poetry

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Colgate University

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J. Naughton This seminar takes as its point of departure the ut pictura poesis notion first articulated by Horace in his Ars Poetica: "as is painting, so is poetry." The course focuses on the interrelated topics of "poets on painting and paintings on poetry" and on the transposition of paintings into words and words into paintings. The seminar concentrates on a number of writers whose work focuses very specifically on painters and paintings - Diderot, Baudelaire, Yves Bonnefoy. The seminar involves a very close look at paintings by Poussin, Chardin, Manet, and art works of various sorts by Giacometti. Open to seniors on490 Honors

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.colgate.edu

Phone Number:

(315) 228-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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