A&H 316 Art & Architecture of the Italian Renaissance

Content

This course focuses on the paintings, sculpture and architecture created in Italy during the Renaissance. In this pivotal period, artists, scholars and philosophers were rediscovering the riches of Greco-Roman antiquity, closely observing the world around them and re-evaluating mankind's place in it, while creating many of the political, social, economic, scientific and religious structures which shaped modern Europe. The works of art will be placed in their material, spiritual and aesthetic context within this captivating period. Among the major artists to be studied are: Giotto, Donatello, Masaccio, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian.

Instructor

Dr. Hans Bloemsma

Track

Art History

Period

Fall / 2008

Evaluation/Assessment

• Quizzes (3) 10%
• Mid-term examination 20%
• Final examination 30%
• Term paper 25%
• Individual presentation and group presentation 15%
  

Course Material

• John T. Paoletti and Gary M. Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy,  3rd edition (London: Laurence King Publishing, 2005).
  

Prerequisites

The following courses are required in order to take this course:

• A&H 215 17th-Century Dutch Painting

One needs to have followed one of the following courses in order to take this course:

• A&H 105 Classical Mythology
• A&H 305 Greek Art & Archaeology