ARTH-UA 203 - Gothic Art in Northern Europe

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New York University

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Description:

The art of the "age of the cathedrals"-including architecture, sculpture, stained glass, manuscript illumination, wall painting, luxury arts, and tapestry-from the origins of the Gothic style in the 12th-century Ile-de-France through the early 15th century. Considers artistic developments in France, England, Flanders, Germany, and Bohemia in light of the religious, historical, political, social, and cultural contexts of their creation. Monuments include the architecture, sculpture, and glass of St. Denis, Chartres, Amiens, Reims, Canterbury, Wells, Ely, Strasbourg, Naumburg, and Prague; the Gothic apocalypse and moralized bible; and psalters and books of hours. Topics include Gothic patrons, artists, builders, and art-making; lay literacy and the patronage and reception of art; the cult of the Virgin and the arts; the Gothic image as bearer of religious, political, and social values and ideologies; humor and marginalia; arts of chivalry and courtly love; art, death, and memory in the Gothic period; naturalism and developments in portraiture; the roles of art in devotional and mystical experience; and Gothic art and late medieval notions of vision and the self.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nyu.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 998-1212

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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