|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
4.00 Credits
This course considers the designs and appearances of major European cities that were originally created in antiquity, that managed to survive (and even flourish) during the Middle Ages, and that then reached a newer, fresher, and more ideologically cohesive appearance during the modem age. Students will travel to the city of Paris, France and examine its origins and evolution, with particular attention paid to its development during the 17th , 18th , and 19th centuries. Bent.
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ARTH 254 or permission of the instructor. This seminar focuses on artistic, intellectual, and cultural developments in France and England during the 12th and 13th centuries. Stylistic, iconographic and theoretical issues in the visual arts are studied within the context of scholastic thought, mass pilgrimage, and monarchical consolidation. Bent.
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ARTH 256 or permission of the instructor. Examination of the intellectual, cultural, and artistic movements dominant in Florence between ca. 1400 and ca. 1440. Images and structures produced by Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Donatello, and Fra Angelico are considered within the context of Florentine social traditions and political events. Bent.
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ARTH 256 or permission of the instructor. This seminar addresses issues of patronage, artistic production, criticism and art theory, and the uses and abuses of images during the High Renaissance. Works by Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and Bramante are considered as emblems of larger cultural movements popular in Italian courts between 1470 and 1520. Bent.
-
4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CHEM 156 in the preceding winter term. Spring Term Abroad course. A survey of 17th-century Dutch history, art history, politics, religion, economics, etc., which links the scientific analysis of art to the art and culture of the time. The course begins on campus and then history, etc., will occur for a few days in Lexington and then proceed to Center for European Studies, Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands. Students visit numerous museums, hear guest lectures from faculty at Universiteit Maastricht, and observe at conservation laboratories at some of the major Dutch art museums. Students are graded by their performance on two research projects involving presentations and journals. Though students are not required to learn a foreign language to participate in the program, they are expected to learn key phrases in Dutch as a matter of courtesy to citizens of the host country. Uffelman.
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ARTH 102 or permission of the instructor. This seminar focuses on the work of Baroque painters Caravaggio (1573-1610) and Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-ca. 1653). We explore Caravaggio’s intense naturalism and the controversy it caused, his sense of drama, and supernatural light. Gentileschi was deeply influenced by Caravaggio but developed her own unique style. Seminar themes include the 1612 rape trial and its impact on Gentileschi’s career, issues of attribution, and proto-feminism. Lepage.
-
3.00 Credits
Building in the United States from Colonial times to the present. Simpson.
-
3.00 Credits
An exploration of the approaches used to study common building types. Architecture is considered a form of material culture that invites a study of its cultural and ideological meaning. From log cabins to golden arches, all forms of the built environment are open to contemplation. Simpson.
-
3.00 Credits
An exploration of the art produced during the decade of the 1960s. A seminal period, it includes Pop Art, Post-Painterly Abstraction, Minimalism, Earth Art, Performance Art, and socially conscious and politically oriented art reflecting feminism and black radicalism. Weekly lectures, readings, essays, films and discussion. Simpson.
-
3.00 Credits
An exploration of the art produced by African-Americans from the Colonial period to the present. Weekly lectures, readings, essays, films and discussion. Simpson.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|