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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S This course advances an interdisciplinary account of Florentine art, architecture, literature, politics, and social life during the crucial years in which the Medici family first came to power. Examining the period's rich historical and historiographical resources, we seek to understand the novel cultural character of Masaccio's paintings, Donatello's sculpture, Brunelleschi's architecture, Alberti's theoretical writings, and Burchiello's poetry, within a thematic structure that also addresses the development of linear perspective, of public political art, and of a new architectural language. Dist: ART; WCult: W. Rando
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3.00 Credits
08F: 10A In this course we explore various Italian cultural centers-Florence, Mantua, Milan, Naples, Rome, Urbino, and Venice-during the second half of the fifteenth century. While focusing on the cultural particularities of each locale, we also consider an array of broader thematic and generic developments, including mythological painting, pictorial narration, the collection and display of art, gender and spectatorship, the emulation of antiquity, and portraiture. Artists studied include Piero della Francesca, Mantegna, Botticelli, Perugino, Leonardo, and Michelangelo. Dist: ART; WCult: W. Randolph.
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3.00 Credits
09F: 10A A study of the major monuments of painting and sculpture in Italy during the sixteenth century. The course surveys the classical style of the High Renaissance (beginning with Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Giorgione) and then traces the development of Mannerism and Maniera in the work of such artists as Pontormo, Bronzino, and Tintoretto. The art of the reformers at the end of the century is also considered, especially as it looks forward to the Baroque. Dist: ART; WCult: W. Kenseth.
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3.00 Credits
Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S A survey of the major monuments of painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts in the Low Countries, Germany, and France, from the late fourteenth century through the Reformation. Content as well as style is examined in the light of its relation to social transformation and the cultural evolution of the period. Emphasis is placed on the work of such significant personalities as the van Eycks, van der Weyden, Bosch, Bruegel, Grünewald, Dürer, and Holbein. Dist: ART; WCult: W. Carroll.
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3.00 Credits
10S: 10A A survey of painting and sculpture from 1600 to 1700. This course focuses upon the art of Caravaggio and his followers in Italy and Spain; the Carracci and the development of seventeenth century classicism; Bernini and the High Baroque; and the art of French visitors to Italy. Special emphasis is given to the relation that the painting and sculpture of this time has to seventeenth century poetry, theatre, science and the aims of the reformed Catholic Church. Dist: ART; WCult: W. Kenseth.
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3.00 Credits
Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S Painting in Flanders and Holland from 1600 to 1700. This course considers the naturalistic tradition from Caravaggio's northern followers to the Haarlem School of Hals; the art of Rembrandt; the classical genre of Vermeer and the Delft School; Rubens and the Flemish High Baroque. The growth of specialized genres of painting and the differing aesthetic aims of Dutch and Flemish painters are viewed against the background of the Protestant reformation and the rise of a mercantile society. Dist: ART; WCult: W. Kenseth.
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3.00 Credits
09F: 2A This course explores the transformative period in European art and culture between 1700 and 1800, when the Rococo, seen as playful and decadent, gave way to the politically and morally charged art of Neoclassicism. We study painting, sculpture, and prints in France, England, and Italy in relation to academic art theory, the public sphere, the exhibition, the Grand Tour, colonialism, and the socio-political upheavals leading to the French Revolution. Artists include Hogarth, Boucher, Tiepolo, Kauffman, Reynolds, David. Dist: ART; WCult: W. Rosenthal.
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3.00 Credits
09S: 10A From the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century the artistic and intellectual movement of Romanticism dominated European culture. Its emphasis on strong emotions, tumultuous nature, and individual imagination was seen as a reaction against the rationalism of Neoclassicism, and as a response to major social and political changes. This course explores key paintings, sculptures, and prints by Romantic artists from France, Britain, Germany, and Spain, including Delacroix, Géricault, Constable, Turner, Goya and Friedrich. Dist: ART. WCult: W. O'Rourke.
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3.00 Credits
09W: 2A09X: 10A From 1848 to 1914, French art and the modern city of Paris dominated the international art scene. This course explores the radical visual culture of the period in painting, sculpture, prints and photography, from the realism of Courbet and Manet to the abstraction of Seurat and Cézanne. We will focus on how new technologies, political and social revolutions, and exhibition culture influenced the work of Cassatt, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh and Rodin, among others. Dist: ART; WCult: W. Rosenthal.
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3.00 Credits
09W: 2 This course draws upon recent scholarship in anthropology, archaeology, material culture, social history and architectural history in its review of five centuries of American architecture. Course lectures not only emphasize America's principal architects and their designs, but also summarize the social and cultural forces that shaped the country's built landscape. Dist: ART; WCult: W. Heck.
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