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This course surveys the vase painting, sculpture, and architecture of Greece, commencing with its Cycladic and Minoan/Mycenaean beginnings and proceeding to the final Greek period, Hellenistic. Although the approach to Greek art will be primarily historical, students will also be introduced to new research dealing with current questions explored for the period, including gender issues and critical reevaluations of well-known monuments. Students will use local collections to familiarize themselves with Greek art. 3 semester hours
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This course is intended to acquaint the student with the major monuments as well as the historical questions regarding the art and architecture of the Roman world, with material ranging in time from the Etruscans to the Late Roman/Early Christian period. 3 semester hours
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The purpose of this course is to acquaint the student with the major ideas and monuments of medieval art, beginning with the Early Christian period and progressing through the Late Gothic. Through a study of the art and architecture of this period, students will explore the ways that religion, philosophy, and commerce helped to shape the material culture of this important part of the history of the Western world. 3 semester hours
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A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Italy from 1300 to 1600, an era encompassing figures such as Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian. The course covers the new dignity accorded to the human form, the rediscovery of classical culture, the emergence of empirical science, the development of perspective and new uses of color, the expanding market for art, and the changing role of the artist. 3 semester hours
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Asurvey of the arts of Northern Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries, an era encompassing such figures as van Eyck, van der Weyden, Bosch, Bruegel, and Dürer. The course examines how the changing political, economic, and religious systems of Northern Europe shaped the production of art. Topics to be considered include the coexistence of naturalism and spirituality in Northern Art, the development of oil painting and graphic design, the impact of the Italian Renaissance on Northern artists, and the influence of the Reformation on the visual arts. 3 semester hours
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A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from 1600 to 1750. Topics include the decline in Renaissance values, and influence of the Counter-Reformation on artistic production, the rise of Protestantism and the changing structure of patronage, and the aggrandizement of the artist. Special emphasis is given to the careers of the major artists Caravaggio, Bernini, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Velazquez, and to the major artistic centers of Rome, Amsterdam, Madrid, and Paris. Special emphasis will be given to the artistic life at the major capital cities: Rome, Paris, Vienna, London, Amsterdam, and Madrid. 3 semester hours
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An examination of French painting from roughly 1860-1885. The course investigates Impressionist art as part of the historical, social, economic, and political context of later 19th-century French culture. 3 semester hours
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Painting from Neoclassicism through Impressionism: an examination of the effects on painters of political and economic upheavals in 19th-century France, England, Spain, and Germany. Formerly listed as AH 212. 3 semester hours
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A survey and explication of painting and sculpture in Europe and the United States from Post-Impressionism to the present. In an effort to understand the increasing role of abstraction in 20th-century art, special emphasis is given to the artists such as Van Gogh, Cézanne, Picasso, and Matisse, who were among the first to challenge the expectation that art must always imitate reality. Formerly listed as AH 214. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to acquaint the student with American painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts produced from the Colonial Period to the Civil War. Works of art will be examined in light of their cultural, social, and political significance; and ideas regarding the revision of thought regarding American imagery will be introduced. 3 semester hours
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