ART 356 - Renaissance Art

Institution:

Wheaton College - Massachusetts

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Description:

Survey and topical study of issues in Italian and Northern European art of the fourteenth-sixteenth centuries. Study of scientific observation and narrative in Italy, of empiricism and symbolic realism in Northern Europe, and of the influence of both humanism and the Reformation. Study of the types and function of art in the religious, civic, and domestic spheres, and of issues relating to the growth of humanism, scientific observation, and lay patronage. Alternate years. Offered 2007-08.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wheatoncollege.edu

Phone Number:

(508) 285-7722

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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