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3.00 Credits
Polytheistic, multicultural religious practices shaped Greek and Roman culture and society. This course examines the main deities, myths, rituals and sanctuaries of the ancient Mediterranean through the study of art, architecture, texts and archaeology. Freestanding sculptures, relief sculptures, vase paintings, wall paintings, mosaics, coinage, altars and temples will be analyzed.
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3.00 Credits
Borrowing its formal language from late antiquity and its symbolism from other mystery cults, the art of early Christianity emerged from the Roman catacombs to monumental expression under emperors Constantine and Justinian. (AY).
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3.00 Credits
A study of the dynamic interplay between barbarian, Christian and classical Mediterranean influences in the early Medieval period with a consideration of the art and architecture of the pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela and of the crusader kingdoms in the Holy Land. (AY).
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the architecture, sculpture and stained glass of the great cathedrals of Europe, focusing on Chartres, Amiens, Reims, and Bourges. A study of the patrons, builders, the new technology they employed and the cities in which they worked as well as an analysis of the emergence of naturalism in medieval manuscript illumination and panel painting. (AY).
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3.00 Credits
This is a course that examines the art and architecture of Europe in the 14th century: one of the great transitional periods in the history of western art. Beginning with the new developments in 13th-century Italian art by such artists as Giovanni Pisano and Giotto, the course charts the pattern of these developments in northern European countries as well. (OC).
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3.00 Credits
Women have often been regarded as the second sex of the middle ages due to the misogynistic attitudes of that era. Recent scholarship, however, has unearthed a significantly more complex picture. Through a study of visual representations of women in medieval art, this course will examine women's roles in the creation and patronage of art and literature, economic and family issues, and women's participation in new and innovative forms of religious piety.
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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