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3.00 Credits
Ousterhout. This course surveys the arts of Byzantium from the fall of Rome to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Study of major monuments, including icons, mosaics, architecture, and ivories will provide us with an overview of this rich artistic culture. We will pay special attention to the role of the Orthodox Church and liturgy in the production and reception of art works. Weekly recitation sections will focus on selected major issues, such as the relationship of art to the Holy, the uses and abuses of Iconoclasm, and imperial patronage. The course will also grapple with the Empire's relationship to other cultures by looking at the impact of the Christian Crusades and Moslem invasions - as well as Byzantium's crucial impact on European art (e.g., in Sicily, Spain).
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Maxwell. This course provides an introduction to the built environment of the Middle Ages. From the fall of Rome to the dawn of the Renaissance, a range of architectural styles shaped medieval daily life, religious experience and civic spectacle. We will become familiar with the architectural traditions of the great cathedrals, revered pilgrimage churches, and reclusive monasteries of western Europe, as well as castles, houses, and other civic structures. We will integrate the study of the architecture and with the study of medieval culture, exploring the role of pilgrimage, courts and civil authority, religious reform and radicalism, crusading and social violence, and rising urbanism. In this way, we will explore the ways in which the built environmentprofoundly affected contemporary audiences and shaped medieval life.
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3.00 Credits
Cole. Introductory survey of the art of the late Renaissance, with an emphasis on drawing, painting, sculpture, and architecture in central Italy. The course will cover works by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael, among others.
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3.00 Credits
Cole. Survey of the visual arts in Italy in the fourteenth, fifteenth,and sixteenth centuries, with emphasis on painting, sculpture and architecture in the major cultural centers. Topics may include the origins of modern urbanism, the rise of art theory, the art of the courts, and the role of art in the religious conflicts that ended the period. The course will devote attention to Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Titian, among other artists.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Cole. An introductory survey of architecture on the Italian peninsula, ca. 1300-1750. The course will cover both standard types (palaces, churches, squares) and distinctive individual monuments. Topics may include urban planning, garden and fountain design, and the relation of practice to theory.
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3.00 Credits
Silver. Survey of the principal developments in Northern Europe during the "early modern" period, i.e. the transition from medieval to modern art-making during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Principal attention to painting and graphics with additional consideration of developments in sculpture, particularly in the regions of the Netherlands and German-speaking Europe. Attention focused on the works of the following artists: Van Eyck, Bosch, Durer, Holbein, Bruegel, and on topics such as the rise of pictorial genres, urban art markets, Reformation art and art for the dynastic courts of emerging nation-states.
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3.00 Credits
Silver. Dutch and Flemish painting in the 15th and 16th centuries with special emphasisonthecontributions of Robert Campin, Jan van Eyck and Roger van der Weyden, Bosch, and Bruegel.
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3.00 Credits
Silver. This course will focus on paintings, prints, and sculptures produced in the Geraround 1600. Principal attention will focus on the changing role of visual culand altarpieces but evolves into an era of "art," and collecting of pictures. German politics and religion will be examined in relation to the images. Cultural exchange with neighboring regions of Italy and the low countries.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Cole/Silver. European art and architecture of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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3.00 Credits
Cole. An introduction to the city of Rome from the late sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century. The course will look at works by such artists as Caravaggio, Bernini, Poussin, and Borromini, considering them in relation to the conditions in which they were originally produced and viewed.
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