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4.00 Credits
Surveys the art, archaeology, and culture of the Aegean Bronze Age and early Iron Age: from ancient Thera to the palace-based states of Minoan Crete and the Mycenaean Greek mainland, to developments within communities of the eighth century B.C. Architecture, wall painting, sculpture, ceramics, and narrative in early Greek art are among the topics to be examined, along with absolute and relative chronologies and the development of writing. Emphasis is placed on critical approaches to material culture within the contexts of religion, sociopolitical and economic organization, burial practices, trade networks, and interactions with neighboring cultures.
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4.00 Credits
Greek and Etruscan art from the seventh century through the fourth century B.C.E., including the orientalizing and archaic styles, the emergence of the classical style, changes in art and life in the fourth century, and the impact of Macedonian court art under the conquests of Alexander the Great. Studies architecture, sculpture, and vase painting within their historical and cultural contexts. Includes study of the Metropolitan Museum of Art collections.
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4.00 Credits
Traces developments in art from the conquests of Alexander the Great to the beginnings of Christian domination under Constantine in the fourth century C.E. Includes Macedonian court art; the spread of Hellenistic culture from Greece to the Indus Valley; the art of the Ptolemaic, Attalid, and Seleucid kingdoms; the expansion of Rome in the western Mediterranean; and the art of the Roman Empire. Special emphasis on problems of chronology, choice of styles, and copies. Study of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum collections is essential.
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4.00 Credits
History of Greek architecture from the archaic through the Hellenistic periods (eighth to first centuries B.C.E.). Provides a chronological survey of the Greek architectural tradition from its Iron Age origins, marked by the construction of the first all-stone temples, to its radical transformation in the late Hellenistic period, most distinctively embodied in the baroque palace architecture reflected in contemporary theatre stage-buildings. The lectures, accompanying images, and readings present the major monuments and building types, as well as such related subjects as city planning and urbanism, building methods, and traditions of architectural patronage.
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4.00 Credits
Identical to CLASS-UA 354. Prerequisite: History of Western Art I (ARTH-UA 1), or Ancient Art (ARTH-UA 3), or History of Architecture from Antiquity to the Present (ARTH-UA 601), or a score of 5 on the AP Art History exam. Offered periodically.
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4.00 Credits
Traces developments in the sculpture, painting, and architecture of ancient Egypt from predynastic beginnings through the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms until the conquest of Augustus (3100-40 B.C.E.). Special emphasis on Egyptian art in the context of history, religion, and cultural patterns. Includes study of Egyptian collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum. There is no prerequisite for this course.
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to the history of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the early Renaissance to the present day. Includes the study of significant works in New York museums, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art.
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4.00 Credits
Christian architecture, sculpture, painting, mosaic, manuscript illumination, and luxury arts of the Greek East and Latin West from their origins ca. 200 C.E. through ca. 950 C.E. Considers the visual and material culture of Christianity in the Mediterranean world, Asia Minor, the Middle East, and northern Europe in light of the religious, historical, political, social, and cultural contexts of their creation. Style periods include early Christian, early Byzantine, barbarian, insular, Merovingian, and Carolingian. Monuments studied include the catacombs, the Arch of Constantine, the great mosaic programs of Italy, Hagia Sophia, the Lindisfarne Gospels and Book of Kells, and Charlemagne's palace chapel at Aachen. Topics include art and the commemoration of the dead; Christian attitudes toward Judaism and the classical tradition; art and theology; the emergence of the cult of saints and its art and architecture; early medieval patrons; arts of pilgrimage and early monasticism; word and image in early medieval culture; and iconoclasm and debates about the role of images in early Christianity.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the architecture, sculpture, painting, manuscript illumination, and treasury arts of the Latin West during the period ca. 950-1200 C.E., including Ottonian, Anglo-Saxon, Mozarabic, First Romanesque, and Romanesque art. Considers the visual arts of Christianity in Spain, France, Germany, Italy, England, and the Crusader States in light of the historical, religious, political, social, and cultural contexts of their creation. Monuments studied include Ottonian and Anglo-Saxon Gospel books; body-part reliquaries; the Hildesheim doors; illuminated Beatus manuscripts; the architecture and sculpture of Santiago, León, Toulouse, Conques, Vézelay, Moissac, Autun, Aquitaine, Provence, and Tuscany; and the Romanesque bible. Topics include the cult of saints and the arts; the art and architecture of pilgrimage and crusade; monasticism and the arts; Romanesque patrons, artists, and audiences; the Romanesque revival of monumental sculpture; Christian encounters with Islam and Judaism; secular themes in Romanesque art; word and image in Romanesque art; medieval attitudes toward the classical tradition; Romanesque art and social class; and Romanesque attitudes toward the arts.
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4.00 Credits
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.
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