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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the visual and material culture of Byzantium, Western Europe, and the Islamic world, roughly covering the years between 500'1500. During this time, the rise and expansion of Christian and Islamic polities prompted discourse between diverse communities. How did medieval artists, patrons, and viewers negotiate issues of difference, plurality, power, and faith? How did they articulate their identity and place within global networks? Of special concern are dynamic histories of cross-cultural exchange, as made visible through commerce and diplomacy, the reuse of materials, and reinterpretation of forms. The course is organized into thematic modules and includes case studies in architecture as well as artistic media such as textiles, metalworks, precious gems and enamels, sculpture, and manuscripts.
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3.00 Credits
This course highlights the arts of medieval Byzantium, western Europe, and the Islamic world. Driven by questions of artists' knowledge and how art-objects were made, we will also consider the ways in which the physical and material properties of a work informed its meaning for historical viewers. Of special concern are the geographic origins of materials, the global networks by which they traveled, and the environmental and human cost of such exchanges. Over the course of the semester, we will focus on materials including but not limited to: textiles, metalworks, wood, stone, precious gems and glass, ceramics, and the arts of the book. Each unit is organized with an eye to chronology as well as the interplay between visual cultures as they developed through commerce, gift exchange, and the reuse of objects and spaces.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the art and architecture from the premodern Islamic world, roughly the seventh to sixteenth centuries. We will follow the patronage of major polities and art produced in the central Islamic lands, while at the same time highlighting new methodological approaches in an expanded field. We will be interested in theorizing relationships between centers and peripheries; in the significance of materials and facture; in networks of trade, conflict, and exchange; and in formal continuity and change. Case studies will include works of architecture, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, and the arts of the book. The course consists of in-person lectures and discussions of readings.
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3.00 Credits
Course content focuses on the power of artistic forms molded for a Roman Empire, Christianized and reseated in Constantinople. Through lecture, discussions, oral reports, and written essays, images and structures reveal a co-mingling of religious and political spheres. We will explore Byzantine perceptions of experimentation, innovation, and maturation. Students will also analyze the effect of iconoclasm, a cataclysmic period of theological controversy, on models of patronage, visual expression and viewership.
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3.00 Credits
This course serves as an introduction to Islamic arts of the book: from the earliest Qur'ans to the lavish narratives of the Timurids and manuscripts of the early modern Safavids, Ottomans, and Mughals. Although the course is organized roughly according to chronology, we will pay particular attention to questions about materials and facture, reading and performance, copying and originality, the relationship between text and image, and the exchange of knowledge. In-person lectures and discussions of readings (including primary sources in translation) will be supplemented with visits to Marriott Library Special Collections.
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3.00 Credits
Examines 15th- and 16th-century art in Europe. The goal is to understand what is meant by the cultural movement of the Renaissance and to explore its relationship to the works of the leading artists of Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany.
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3.00 Credits
This class investigates the visual arts of the Italian peninsula, c. 1400-1580. Students will examine the social conditions of art production and patronage, as well as the various roles for images in religious, urban and domestic settings.
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3.00 Credits
The 17th century was a time of dynamic political, social, and religious changes calling for a re-examination of tradition and the purposes of art. Many artists in Italy, Flanders, Holland, Spain, France, and England experimented with ways of involving the viewer in their art for persuasion and more engagement in the issues of the day.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines European visual and material culture in the context of the religious, social and political transformations of the Protestant Reformation and its aftermath. The late medieval context will form an initial background to our exploration of the intensive critique and physical destruction of religious imagery by Reformers in Northern Europe. While the emphasis is on religious artifacts, we will be concerned with the changing functions, concepts, and uses of a range of images over the course of the sixteenth century.
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3.00 Credits
This class examines the visual and material culture of the Dutch Republic, c. 1580-1700. Major themes include: mercantile culture and the art market, relationship between art and science, global trade, and gender and domesticity.
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