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3.00 Credits
M. Calo, R. McVaugh A study of art from the 14th century to the present. Major representative works of principal historical periods and cultures are studied. The student is introduced to basic critical and art-historical methods. Open to first-year students and sophomores, or by permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
P. Kaimal This course, like ARTS 101 and 102, is an introduction to the field of art history as well as a survey of the architecture, sculpture, and painting of Asia. Through Asian art from Neolithic times to the present, from China, India, Japan, Persia, Korea, Central Asia, Java, Cambodia, and Vietnam, this course demonstrates what distinguishes these artistic cultures from each other and from various European artistic traditions. This course also introduces the vocabulary, techniques, and patterns of thinking students will need in advanced art history courses. Open to first-year students and sophomores, or by permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
C.A. Lorenz This course is an introduction to the art of the indigenous peoples of Africa, Oceania, and North America. Representative cultures from each area are chosen to illustrate the forms, styles, and meanings of indigenous art. The course also explores themes such as the role of art in the life cycle, the use of art as an instrument of power, the concept of masking, etc. Finally, the course examines tradition and change in indigenous arts in the modern world. Open to first-year students and sophomores, or by permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Staff An introduction to the history of architecture from pre-history to the present. The course secures student understanding of the range of ways human cultures have employed architecture over time. Global traditions of structure and spatial organization are explored, with close attention to precise architectural vocabulary. Historical styles, significant individual structures or complexes, basic principles of urbanism, and the relationship between theory and practice are all studied.
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3.00 Credits
E. Marlowe This course is a study of the sculpture, architecture, and painting of ancient Roman civilization from the Etruscan period to the late Roman Empire in the 4th century A.D. Topics include engineering, portraiture, the private house, political uses of imagery, and building forms.
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3.00 Credits
J. Oliver A study of art and architecture in Western Europe and the Mediterranean world from the origins of Christianity to the late 11th century. Themes include the heritage of classical art, its transformation through contact with northern barbarian culture, its survival in the Byzantine Greek Empire, and the imperial art of the new northern Holy Empire.
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3.00 Credits
Staff This course surveys the arts and architecture produced by various Islamic cultures between North Africa and the Indian subcontinent since the earliest days of Islam in the 7th century. Major monuments of religious and secular architecture, architectural decoration, painting, and calligraphy are studied in their religious and cultural context, with particular attention paid to the artistic and architectural intersections between Islam and other religious traditions.
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3.00 Credits
J. Oliver This course looks at architecture, sculpture, and painting (including manuscript illumination and stained glass) in their historical context. Themes include monastic cloisters, pilgrimage and crusade, the construction of Gothic cathedrals, the emergence of an urban middle class, castles, and courtly love.
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3.00 Credits
C. Guile This course examines works of painting and sculpture produced in Italy from the late 13th through the late 16th centuries. Focusing on the major cultural centers such as Florence, Rome, and Venice, it considers the works and careers of artists such as Giotto, Donatello, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian. The works are studied in the broader context of Renaissance Italy, with particular attention paid to issues of patronage (both civic and religious), devotion, gender, identity, and spectatorship.
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3.00 Credits
C. Guile Italian architecture of the 14th through 17th centuries lies at the heart of the tradition of western architecture. This course explores the buildings of Brunelleschi, Alberti, Palladio, Michelangelo, Bernini, and Borromini, among others, paying attention not only to style and design, but also to technical innovation, function, patronage, and the relationship between architectural theory and practice. Selected monuments are also examined in the broader context of their urban or rural environments. Prerequisite: ARTS 105 or permission of instructor.
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