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3.00 Credits
This course will consider the art, archeology and architecture of ancient Rome, from its antecedents in the Italic and Etruscan traditions, through the Republic and the late empire. Major works, monuments and sites will be examined in the context of the culture, history, geography and religion.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the art and architecture of late antique and early medieval Europe from Constantine the Great to the year 1000, covering the late Roman, early Byzantine, Merovingian, Hiberno-Saxon, Carolingian, Ottonian, and early Islamic periods. We will devote special emphasis to key historical, cultural, and religious influences on medieval art, including the rise of Christianity and of Islam, the court of Charlemagne, monasticism, and the millennial terrors of the year 1000. We will also consider interpretive questions relating to art and ritual, the survival of pagan imagery, and aniconism in medieval art.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the art and architecture of the Romanesque period, the 11th and 12th centuries, especially the sudden, widespread "Renaissance" of monumental sculpture. The course seeks to situate Romanesque art in relation to important cultural and religious phenomena that shaped its uses and meanings, including pilgrimage and the cult of relics, monasticism, and crusade. We will also consider the origin of the idea of a Romanesque in medieval art and interpretive approaches to Romanesque art.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the development of art in Western Europe during the later Middle Ages, from the late 12th through the 15th century. We will consider manuscript illumination, stained glass, sculpture, and the rise and evolution of the Gothic cathedral, with special focus on themes of the droll and the grotesque and on the roles of art in late medieval piety, politics, and everyday life.
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3.00 Credits
Earlier Renaissance; Proto-Renaissance aspects of late Gothic art; the international style; early renaissance; high renaissance; Venetian art; mannerism. Examples of painting, sculpture and architecture will be studied.
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3.00 Credits
Using contemporary as well as modern accounts of the artist, this course will study the painting, drawing, sculpture, and architecture of Michelangelo in the context of Italian Renaissance culture.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the art of Europe north of the Alps during the 15th and 16th centuries. We will consider the development of new artistic techniques and technologies in painting and print through the work of such major artists as Jan van Eyck, Albrecht Durer, and Hieronymous Bosch. The course will also investigate concepts of morality, religion, death, and Apocalypse that are reflected in the art of the period.
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3.00 Credits
With the towering figures of Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt van Rijn as bookends, this course examines art of the Netherlandish Baroque within its cultural and social contexts, with close attention to themes of religion, social morality, and humor. We will consider the significance of major artists, including Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Frans Hals, and others, in addition to important contributions by Northern Baroque artists to the development of portraiture, landscape, still life, and genre painting.
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3.00 Credits
This course will study European art and architecture between 1780-1870, from Neo-Classicism through Impressionism.
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3.00 Credits
This course will study European and American art from Abstract Expressionism to the present.
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