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Byzantine Monasteries: art and architecture of the monastic sphere within the Byzantine Empire and the related lands, from c. 400 to c. 1500. The aim is to understand the main religious, social, and cultural factors within the Byzantine monastic sphere, and the manner in which these factors were expressed in art and architecture created directly under monastic auspices.
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Pilgrimage, Topography of Sacred Art: This seminar will examine the art and architecture associated with pilgrimage in the Holy Land, Near East, North Africa and Europe from early Christian times to the thirteenth century. It will examine the role played by the visual arts in the development of saints' and relic cults, as well as economic and social aspects of pilgrimage. Original textual sources, such as pilgrims' narratives, guidebooks, maps and miracle collections, will allow students to experience the phenomenon of pilgrimage through contemporary accounts that complement the art historical material.
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Discusses the conditions of image making and theory in the Middle Ages. The course will focus on how to represent God in the visual arts, introducing iconographic concepts and their reception. Single image-types will be analyzed on the basis of sociological and intellectual history and from different historiographic view points. Discussions of selected readings will raise questions and suggest approaches to the iconographic material. Issues covered in this course are: institutionalizing Christianity in Late Antiquity, the idea of authenticity for various types of icons, iconoclasm, the image of God in Scholasticism, and allegory.
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Examines the global exchange in art and architecture between and among the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas in the period 1492-1800. The course focuses on the geographical, historical, religious, anthropological, and aesthetic aspects of issues such as cultural encounters, diffusion, transculturation, regionalism, and related topics.
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The focus of the seminar will be G.B. Piranesi (1720-1778), as architect, antiquarian, polemicist, dealer, and graphic artist. We will endeavor to see Piranesi in context, to understand his accomplishment against the background of his adopted city and the learned culture that flourished there. Piranesi's publications are well represented in Princeton collections, providing opportunities for those who wish to work closely with original sources.
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Rethinking Aestheticism: This course seeks to recover the intensity and strangeness of the art and artwriting associated with Aestheticism in Britain, c.1860-1900. Long a byword for frivolity and excess, British Aestheticism, centered on the re-imagination of bodily experience and the life of the senses, has emerged as a crucial episode in the development of modernism. Figures considered will include Ruskin, Swinburne, Pater, Rossetti, Morris, Whistler, Burne-Jones, and others. Topics will include the intersection of art with utopian politics; practices of sexual dissidence; theories of the decorative; and the impact of Darwin on the arts.
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This seminar covers the emergence of Art Deco in Paris between the wars and its connection to the visual arts, architecture, film, and fashion. We will analyze the ways in which its sophisticated forms and materials responded to new conditions of urban living, the mobility of modern life through speed and travel, the rise of the film industry as a mass medium, and the appearance of women as producers of decorative art. Special emphasis will be given to the multiple and conflicting concepts of the modern object in an age that both embraced and rejected mass production.
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This seminar studies the radical forms of urban renewal that altered the city of Paris during the heyday of Impressionism. The often violent redistribution of social classes across the urban territory, creation of new forms of infrastructure, and transformation of the city into spectacle had a pronounced effect on citizens. Urban mobility, new forms of leisure and consumption, but also spatial segregation and class antagonisms all helped pave the way for new cultures and counter-cultures. We shall analyze how notions of identity were being forged and reinvented as traditional class and gender roles changed.
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This seminar looks at order and chaos as organizing principles for an exploration of 18th century European art. Drawing on primary texts, the course focuses on key figures in British, French, and Italian art to understand their relationship to fundamental Enlightenment discourses concerning the ordering of knowledge and society at a time of dramatic social, economic, and political change. The course will draw heavily on period literary sources, and on both key individual creative artists and wider social contexts.
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The literature of art, architecture and archaeology in Europe until the late eighteenth century. Some sessions to be devoted to the Islamic World and East Asia. Later intrepretations, consequences, and relevance to other cultures will be considered.
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