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4.00 Credits
This seminar will focus on the treatment of the American landscape by painters of the Hudson River School. We will examine both the stylistic and the philosophical trends of this 19th- century art movement, relating it to literary and historical developments. Mandatory attendance at all required field trips and writing workshops. Prerequisite: One art history course or permission of the instructor. ( Spring '09)
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4.00 Credits
This course begins with a brief survey of painting in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and Greece, and will focus on Roman painting in particular. The paintings and mosaics preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E. provide a unique opportunity to examine these ancient media within their cultural, architectural and archaeological context. We will explore the Roman practice of copying paintings by renowned Greek painters, and of "translating" these paintings in to mosaic, aswell the use of styles and subjects that are uniquely Roman. Mandatory attendance at all required field trips and writing workshops. Prerequisite: One art history course or permission of the instructor. ( Fall'08)
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4.00 Credits
The seminar will focus on French painting from about 1860 to 1900. We will examine the work of such leading artists as Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Degas and Renoir, as well as that of lesser-known members of the group. We will also look at the influence of proto-Impressionists painters, including Boudin and Jongkind, and consider issues of gender and the role of women in the movement. Emphasis will be upon the stylistic development of Impressionist painters. Mandatory attendance at all required field trips and writing workshops. Prerequisite: One art history course or permission of the instructor. ( Spring'08)
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4.00 Credits
This seminar focuses on painting, sculpture and architecture produced in Venice during the 15th- and 16th- centuries. It includes: analysis of the relationships between Venice and Byzantium, and Venice and the East; in-depth examinations of Bellini's religious paintings, Carpaccio's narrative paintings,Giorgione's and Titian's "painted poetry," the drama Tintoretto, and the grandeur (and controversy) of Veronese; and investigations of the importance of the nearby mainland. Mandatory attendance at all required field trips and writing workshops. Prerequisite: One art history course or permission of the instructor. ( Fall '08)
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4.00 Credits
A seminar focusing on the ways in which the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome used art as a means of presenting and representing the relationship between biological sex (male, female) and the social invention of gender (husband, warrior, king, wife, mother, whore, etc.). Mandatory attendance at all required field trips and writing workshops. Prerequisite: One art history course or permission of the instructor. ( Fall '07)
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4.00 Credits
This course examines images of dying, death and the afterlife, as well as art and objects created to accompany the dead into the next world, in the ancient, pre-Christian world, particularly in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome. Within the context of each of these four major civilizations, the course will examine the beliefs and rituals that attend death and the afterlife, as evidenced through archaeology, art, mythology and literature. We will look closely at the interplay between images and beliefs. At least three field trips will be held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art for lectures in the galleries. Mandatory attendance at all required field trips and writing workshops. Prerequisite: One art history class or permission of the instructor. ( Spring '08)
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4.00 Credits
This seminar will examine contemporary art from 1945 to the present, focusing on developments in painting, sculpture and installation art with an emphasis on artists from Europe and the United States. Topics include: abstraction vs. figuration, conceptual art, feminist art, post-modernism and current tendencies in 21st- century art. Mandatory attendance at all required field trips and writing workshops. Prerequisite: One art history class or permission of the instructor. ( Fall '07)
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4.00 Credits
This seminar surveys political art in Ireland from the 19th and 20th centuries to the present. Students are introduced to the visual arts of modern-day Ireland. Issues of national identity and cultural revivalism are addressed as we look at Irish political art beginning with the Celtic Revival of the late 1840s and continuing to the Northern Irish mural movement of the 1980s and 1990s. Mandatory attendance at all required field trips and writing workshops. Prerequisite: One class in art history or in Irish studies, or permission of the instructor. ( Spring '09)
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4.00 Credits
This seminar explores the life and work of "the Divine"Michelangelo Buonarroti, perhaps the best known artist and architect of the Italian Renaissance. It provides an in-depth analysis of the artist's oeuvre, training, and stylistic development. Additional topics include the relationship of the artist's work to the culture and artistic developments of the Renaissance, the importance of Michelangelo's patrons, and myths and legends about the artist - from divine inspiration to the burdens of terrible genius. Mandatory attendance at all required field trips and workshops. Prerequisite: One art history course or permission of the instructor. ( Spring '08)
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4.00 Credits
The seminar introduces the professional world of art history, including new methodologies, museum education, museology, gallery and auction house work, graduate study, art patronage, conservation and restoration. Students will have regular writing assignments. Frequent field trips. Open only to Junior and Senior art history majors. Students are urged to consult with the instructor or department chair before registering for this course. (Fall)
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