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3.00 Credits
An examination of major architectural monuments from ancient Egypt to the present. Explores the rela- tion between the appearance and function of buildings, the use of ornament in relation to materials, and the social and symbolic importance of architecture.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of Greek art and architecture from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Era. Among the topics consid- ered are Mycenaean tombs and palaces, the develop- ment of temple architecture, and the ways in which polytheistic religion shaped life in ancient Greece. Same course as CL308.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of Roman art and architecture from the emergence of the Etruscan Civilization to the fall of the empire. Topics include the forging of a new Roman culture from Italic and Greek origins, the invention of new construction techniques, and the appropriation of art for propagandistic purposes. A section of this course is offered in Rome. Same course as CL309.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on the emergence of early Christian art from its classical origins, and the development of a wholly integrated spiritual expression in the art of Byzantium, Romanesque, and Gothic Europe. Counts toward Catholic Studies and Medieval Studies minors.
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3.00 Credits
Investigates art's reflection of the rise of humanism, the rebirth of interest in antiquity, and a new concen- tration on the earthly world in thirteenth to sixteenth century Italy. Studies art and patronage in Republican Florence, Papal Rome, and the ducal courts of North- ern Italy, from the time of Giotto to the High Renais- sance of Leonardo and Michelangelo, and on to Man- nerism and the Counter-Reformation. Counts toward Catholic Studies and Medieval Studies minors.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the developing humanism of the fifteenth century in Flanders where the manuscript tradition of painting developed into the naturalistic and symbolic painting of the "late Gothic," as well as the increasinginfluence of Italian art on Northern Europe in the six- teenth century. Counts toward Catholic Studies and Medi- eval Studies minors.
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3.00 Credits
Studies painting, sculpture, and architecture in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the age of absolute monarchy in France and Spain, a triumphant papacy in Italy, and the Protestant Dutch Republic. Key artists include Caravaggio, Bernini, Velazquez, Rem- brandt, and Vermeer. Counts toward Catholic Studies minor.
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3.00 Credits
Bracketed by two revolutions, this course explores the radical politics of art in France from 1780 to 1848 and the concurrent emergence of landscape painting and portraiture as art forms that reflected the values of the growing middle class in England, Germany, France, and Spain.
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3.00 Credits
Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, artists such as Courbet, Manet, and Monet struggled to free themselves from older art forms in an effort to162 Fine Arts become "modern," to capture the life and spirit of theirown times. Investigates the artistic transformation that occurred in an era of rapid social change as artists struggled with new avenues for marketing their works (through dealers and galleries), mined new urban spaces and newly created suburbs, and combed the diminish- ing countryside for their images. Counts toward Gender Studies minor.
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3.00 Credits
At the end of the nineteenth century, artists prized self- expression over centuries-old conventions for art. Examines the dreamy world-weariness of Symbolist artists at the end of the nineteenth century; the assault on conventional art forms by artists such as Picasso, Matisse, and Duchamp in the early twentieth century; and the Surrealist effort to capture and objectify the subjective in art.
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