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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only.Maxwell. A survey of sculpture, painting, and architecture in Italy from c. 300 to 1400.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Silver. Emphasis on the "Golden Age" of painting traditions of Holland and Flanders from the outset of the Dutch Revolt in the 1560s to the French invasions around 1670. Principal artists include: Pieter and Jan Brueghel, Rubens, Van Dyck, Goltzuis, Hals, Rembrandt, Ruisdael, Vermeer, and Steen. Attention to the rise of pictoral genres: landscape, still life, tavern scenes, portraiture, as well as relationship of art to the rise of Absolutist rulers, religious conflicts, and the Thirty Years War.
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3.00 Credits
Silver. Consideration of the problems of definition, analysis, and interpretation of artworks, chiefly painting, sculpture and graphic arts. Topics for consideration will include: the changing status of the artist, sites of visual display, the relationship between art and authority, the representation of cultural difference (including both national/ethnic and gender difference), and the "art for art's sake: purposes of "modernism." Requirements will consist of short analytical papers on visual images as well as on class readings, comprised of some primary texts and samples of scholarship. Principal texts will derive from the Open University series "Art and its Histories" (Yale University Press).
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Topic varies. Organized in cooperation with local museums and collections.
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3.00 Credits
Silver. History of prints in the period from about 1400 to Albrecht Durer (d 1528). Relation of early Northern and Italian woodcuts, engravings, and etchings to contemporary art forms - sculpture, painting. Topic varies.
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Staff. A proseminar designed to acquaint the participants with the physical evidence of buildings. It treats the properties of pre-modern building materials, their static and dynamic behavior, their contexts and reasons for their use, and the means for their procurement and working. It considers the methodologies for the historical interpretation of physical evidence, including the recording, analysis, and presentation of evidence, determining the date and original form of buildings, their sequence of construction, and their subsequent modifications. Each participant carries out a small-scale field exercise. No prerequisites.
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3.00 Credits
Davis. Study Japanese woodblock prints from the seventeenth through the twentieth century. For most of the course, we will be concerned with prints from the Edo, or Tokugawa, period (1615-1868) in the style known as "ukiyo-e" ("images of the floating world") and the culture that produced them, but in the final weeks we will also consider the continuation and adaptation of woodblock printing in modern print movements. Study of prints at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and other local collections.
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3.00 Credits
Meister. Topic varies.
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3.00 Credits
Davis. Topic varies.
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