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  • 3.00 Credits

    This course examines the city of Florence as a work of art, as well as masterpieces of Florentine sculpture, painting and architecture of the Early Renaissance (fifteenth century). Among the masters studied are the sculptors Nanni di Banco, Donatello, Ghiberti, Luca della Robbia, Pollaiuolo, and Verrocchio; the painters Masaccio, Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo Lippi, and Botticelli; and the architects Brunellschi, and Alberti. Statuary, reliefs and tombs; altarpieces, fresco cycles and mythological pictures; churches and palaces are all studied within the context of the technical, philosophical, political and cultural developments of the quattrocento. The ideals of the Florentine Republic, Humanism, Neo-Platonism, and Millenarianism provide the historical and intellectual background for the study of these works of art and architecture. Issues of patronage, placement, restoration, art criticism, women's roles in society and reception will also be explored. (OC). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
  • 3.00 Credits

    A study of the works of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael, masters of the High Renaissance in Florence and Rome, and an examination of the Mannerists, a new generation whose art displayed a modern accent on self-expression and abstraction. (AY). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
  • 3.00 Credits

    A survey of the art which arose amid the conflicts of late medieval mysticism and Renaissance humanism in 15th- and 16th-century Germany and the Netherlands with emphasis on the works of Van Eyck, Durer, Grunewald, Bosch, and Bruegel. (AY). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
  • 3.00 Credits

    A detailed study of major episodes from the Bible, first as a literary work, and second as it is reflected in both poetry and the visual arts during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Included are selected works by such masters as John Donne, George Herbert, and John Milton in poetry and Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo da Vinci in painting and sculpture. (OC). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
  • 3.00 Credits

    A study of the art of the seventeenth century in Italy and Spain, focusing upon Caravaggio, Annibale Carracci, Guercino, Reni, Cortona, Gaulli, Murillo, Zurbaran, and Velasquez, among others. (OC). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
  • 3.00 Credits

    Study of the art of the seventeenth century in France, Flanders and Holland, with emphasis on Poussin, Georges de la Tour, the Le Nain brothers, Lebrun, Rubens, Van Dyck, Van Ruisdael, Vermeer, and Rembrandt. (OC). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
  • 3.00 Credits

    A study of American painting, sculpture, and architecture from the colonial period to the present. In this survey of an arts tradition that has greatly depended upon developments in Europe, efforts will be made to identify what is American about American art. (AY). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
  • 3.00 Credits

    An examination of the origins of modern painting and sculpture in the art of the major Impressionists (Manet, Monet, Degas, Renoir) and Post-Impressionists (Cezanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh). (OC). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
  • 3.00 Credits

    A contextual study of twentieth-century art that seeks to define the relationships between western art and society. In addition to a consideration of painting, sculpture, and architecture, the emergence of new media - including altered and fabricated photography, video, and installation art - will be examined. Although a broad survey of a century rich in artistic achievements, the course will emphasize the dominance and influence of Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Frank Lloyd Wright. (AY). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
  • 3.00 Credits

    A critical examination of Pablo Picasso's art that chronicles the artist's achievements as a painter, sculptor, draftsman, printmaker, and ceramist. Lectures and readings are directed to positioning Picasso's masterworks in relationship to his art as a whole and in the context of twentieth-century art. (AY). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Literature,Philosophy&Arts Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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