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4.00 Credits
French Studies, Medieval Studies This course examines 500 years of art and architecture, from the terrors of the year 1,000 through the waning of the Middle Ages, paying particular attention to the great monasteries, cathedrals, and castles of Europe. Emphasis is placed on the analysis of architecture (religious and secular), sculpture, frescoes, stained glass, tapestry, manuscripts, and metalwork within a wider cultural context. Topics studied include monasticism, the pilgrimage routes and the cult of relics, the Crusades, the rise of urbanism and the university, technological innovations, and the roles played by patrons and by marginalized groups (heretics, the poor, lepers) within a changing society.
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4.00 Credits
French Studies, Medieval Studies This course investigates the structure and symbolism of the great cathedrals (Chartres, Bourges, Amiens, Reims, Beauvais) within the changing dynamics of contemporary society. Architecture, stained glass, and sculptural programs are analyzed in relation to technological innovations, political and economic change, the demands of patrons, and increasing urban interest. Concluding sessions, which include field trips, explore the Romantic, symbolic, and aesthetic attitudes underlying the Gothic revival of the late 18th and 19th centuries.
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4.00 Credits
Human Rights, Religion UNESCO termed the Taliban's destruction (2001) of two revered ancient stone Buddhas in Afghanistan a "sacrilege to humanity." Yet tothe Taliban, it was the Buddhas that constituted the sacrilege by violating the Islamic prohibition against figural imagery. Iconoclastic acts such as this date to antiquity and have frequently originated in beliefs about the right of human beings to represent and worship divinity in visual form. But iconoclastic acts are also frequently politically motivated. This course looks at important instances of iconoclasm, including those in Byzantium, Reformation Europe, revolutionary France, and more recently, isolated cases such as that of the Taliban.
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3.00 Credits
Classical Studies, Italian Studies Politicians and popes, from the Emperor Augustus to the current Italian government, conscious of the historical significance of urban topography and architectural type, have crafted Rome into a capital that suits their ideological aims. This course focuses on the commissioning of largescale representational architecture, the creation of public space, the orchestration of streets, and the continuing dialogue between past and present in the city of Rome.
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4.00 Credits
Over a period of two centuries (1400-1600), an informal trade alliance in the Mediterranean, anchored by the House of Aragon, expanded into a worldwide empire. This course considers how architecture, art, and urban form responded to and shaped this extraordinary geopolitical phenomenon. The class addresses four principal questions: How did art and architecture serve as a vehicle for the dissemination of Catholicism in the early modern world? How did the expansion of the Spanish Empire allow for the geographic diffusion of architectural form? What happens to Renaissance art and architecture outside of Europe? What is the relationship between architecture and cultural identity in the Spanish world?
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4.00 Credits
LAIS This course presents a comprehensive overview of the artistic practices and intellectual discourses relevant to contemporary art production in Latin America. Painting, sculpture, photography, video, glass, ceramics, textiles, performance, and installation art are examined, along with the theoretical issues that inform them. Topics discussed include postcolonial theory, the history of abstraction in Latin America, national identities, the legacy of muralism, religious syncretism, ecologies, and border issues. Open to all, but it is strongly suggested that interested students first take Art 160, Survey of Latin American Art.
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4.00 Credits
Italian Studies A survey of Italian painting and sculpture of the 14th and 15th centuries. Major trends from Giotto and Duccio through Piero della Francesca and Botticelli are analyzed within a wider cultural context. Consideration is given to the evolution of form, style, technique, and iconography; contemporary artistic theory; and the changing role of the artist in society.
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4.00 Credits
Italian Studies A study of major painters and sculptors of the High Renaissance in Florence and Rome, focusing on the works of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael. The class considers the origin and development of a monumental style in Italian art and concludes with an examination of the work of selected mannerist artists.
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4.00 Credits
Italian Studies This course traces the development of architecture and urbanism in Italy from the beginning of the 15th century through the 16th century. The class situates the architecture and ideas of Brunelleschi, Alberti, da Vinci, Bramante, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Palladio within their political and theological contexts. The class also explores how the contradictions between the Renaissance and ancient Rome gave birth to both modern archaeology (the study of the material remains of the past) and modern architectural theory (the formulation of suitable styles for the future). The second half focuses on modifications in form and theory during the Counter-Reformation and the ways the achievements of the Italian Renaissance were transplanted to France, Spain, and England.
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4.00 Credits
This course addresses basic issues of architecture and urbanism through a comparative analysis of the most culturally significant urban centers of Russia and the United States. Through readings, visual analyses of buildings, cartographic documents, and films, students discuss fundamental questions about what comprises an urban identity. The class meets twice a week, once via videoconference with students at Smolny College in St. Petersburg. The course has no prerequisites, although preference is given to those students with either an architectural / art historical, urban studies, or Russian studies background.
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