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II. Catalog Description: History of Renaissance Art.
III. Purpose: To provide students with a knowledge of the major artists, works of art, and art theories of the late 13th through 16th centuries in Europe.
IV. Course Objective: To help students understand
the immediate historical and cultural context in which the Renaissance
works of art were created. The course will explore issues influencing art,
such as: geographic location, religion, civic life, humanism and the revival
of antiquity, artistic theories of the Renaissance, depictions of nature,
and patronage. Specific artists and monuments will exemplify the
socio-cultural patterns forming the art both stylistically and socially
in painting, sculpture, and architecture
Class time will rely on lectures and group discussions. This will require
your advanced preparation and active participation. Discussions will be
based on lectures and assigned readings. These discussions should
be as informal as possible and students at different levels should not
feel excluded or intimidated.
The lectures in class cannot cover the whole scope of Renaissance.
You should read the assigned readings--with emphasis on the discussed problems.
The readings the readings, lectures, and discussions will also provide
bases for students research aimed to provide students with an opportunity
to understand the historical discourse surrounding the art of the period.
V. Content Outline: See attached schedule for details.
VI. Instructional activities: Lectures with slides and discussion
VII. Field and Clinical Experience: possible trip to the Saint Louis Art Museum (TBA)
VIII. Resources: Slides, textbook, library materials, & handouts.
IX. Grading Procedures:
1) Exams: comprehensive, factual and conceptual, based on readings, presentations, discussions, lectures etc. (150 points each; 2 midterms and final, 450 points total)Total points available for the course 1000.
2) Research essay: Each student will select a topic. Visual Analysis (50 points), Contextual Analysis (50 points), and Compare/Contrast (50 points) essays related to this central topic will be due during the semester for a quick review. These short essays will be ultimately used for the final well researched, argued, and written research essays 6-8 pages in length.. Details about specific requirements and style will be provided in class. The final grade will based on the quality and completeness of thought (thesis, quality and clarity of the argument, understanding of the issues central to the topic etc.) as well as on the formal issues (quality of research, bibliography, style, etc.). (250 points total)
3) Visual project: students will be asked to create an actual work of art during the semester (any media) which would reflect their understanding of the key “Renaissance” issues ideally in relation to the topic selected for their research This is NOT intended as a copy of old masters, rather, it should be a proof of students’ internalization of the discussed issues. The purpose of the final product is NOT to focus on technique and style but on conceptual issues. On the other hand effectiveness of communicating the ideas will be considered). The student will keep a journal of their creative process (thumbnail sketches, etc.). The final version of the work will be accompanied by ca. 2 pages (typed) explanatory “artist’s statement” addressing student’s concepts behind the work, influences, issues addressed etc. The works and the accompanying explanations will be displayed, after final class “critique” as a class project in the gallery. (further detail will be discussed in class) (200 points)
4a) Participation: active, regular, and constructive participation in the discussions based on readings, research, presentations, and lectures is crucial to the active learning of each individual as well as of the group and will be monitored.
4b) Notes: Your notebook will be collected (arbitrarily and without warning) once in the course of the semester to evaluate you note taking as a form of participation.
Participation and Notes (100 points)
All assignments MUST be turned in ON TIME (see
due dates on your daily schedule). It is student’s responsibility
to keep up with all the changes and/or assignments missed due to an absence.
LATE assignments will NOT be ACCEPTED! (except
in cases of long-term hospitalization etc.), and will count at “0”
points toward your final grade!
X. Absence Policy: Attendance is required. Four (4) total absences are allowed with or without documentation. Subsequent absences (except in documented cases of long term hospitalization, imprisonment, etc.) will result in lowering of the final grade by full grade for each absence. Six (6) or more absences will result in an automatic “E” grade.
XI. Academic Honesty Policy: Any instance of flagrant (i.e., “knowing” violation) academic dishonesty, as determined by the instructor of this course in compliance with the university policy, will result in the student’s dismissal from the class the assignment of an “E” grade for the course.
XII. Text and Resources: John Paoletti and
Gary Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, Prentice Hall, 1997, and
Craig Harbison, The Mirror of the Artist: Northern Renaissance Art
in Its Historical Context, Harry Abrams (Perspectives), 1995
Reserved
Readings:
Frederick Hartt, History of Italian Renaissance Art: painting, sculpture
and architecture
L.B. Alberti, On Painting (tr. Cecil Grayson)
M. Baxandall, Painting & Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Gilbert, Italian Art 1400-1500: Sources & Documents
Klein & Zerner, Italian Art 1500-1600
Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo On Painting,
Pope-Henessey, Italian Sculpture, vols.1-3
Roskill, Dolce’s “Aretino”
James Snyder, Northern Renaissance Art (on order,
not yet available)
Vasari, Lives..., vols.1-4
These are on reserve in the Library. The must readings from these are
listed on syllabus. Others may be used for research or additional reading
for the development of ideas.
XIII. Prerequisites: Art 218 for art majors
NB: It is the policy of the department that NO DRINKS or FOOD are
ALLOWED in the gallery
as well as in the classrooms adjacent to the gallery. This
rule will be enforced in this class.
Wk 2 Aug 29 Innovations
and Tradition:
Vasari, Intro to part One
Gothic Invention: Giotto, Duccio, Pisano
51-53,82-86, 96-105,111,121
Venice: Byzantine tradition
134-139
Aug 31 Black Death, its Aftermath and International
Gothic 140-156, 171-175
selection of the topics
Wk 3 Sep 5 Flemish 15th
c.
7-52
Sep 7 Flemish 15th c. cont.
53-60,63-85
Wk 4 Sep 12 c.1400: Birth of the
Renaissance
176-189, 246-249;
Baxandall 29-108, Gilbert 21-22
Sep 14 Early Renaissance: Gothic vs. Classicizing
191-245;
Vasari, Intro. To Part Two;
Alberti, On Painting, 1-25, 34-36, 37-86
Wk 5 Sep 19 Venice in the 15th c.:merging
of two traditions
258-269
Sep 21 Flemish 15th c.
91-104
Wk 6 Sep 26 Late 15th c. Italian
Renaissance
270-310
Sep 28 Late 15th c. Italian Renaissance cont.
Wk 7 Oct 3
Oct 5 NO
CLASS
Wk 8 Oct 10 The Seeds
of High Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci
312-323; Leonardo on Painting 9-46
(so-called Paragone, see also Klein, 4-15),
Vasari, Intro. To Part Three
(also in Klein 73-79)
Oct 12 c.1500 Florence
325-331
Wk 9 Oct 17 Rome of
Julius II
339-354
Oct 19 NO CLASS
Wk 10 Oct 24 Rome of Julius
II cont.
Oct 26 Venice c.1500: the poetic vision of color
355-373
Preliminary Version of the Visual Project Due
Wk 11 Oct 31 Venice
cont.
Nov 2 NO CLASS
Wk 12 Nov 7 ELECTIONS
- NO CLASS
Nov 9
Final Research Essay Due
Wk 13 Nov 14 Northern “Renaissance”:
Italy “reconsidered
60-63,86-90
Nov 16 Northern “Renaissance” reformation
105-122, 155-167
Wk 14 Nov 21 Visual
Project Critique
Nov 23 THANKSGIVING
Wk 15 Nov 28 Mannerisms
333-338, 366-374
Nov 30 Mannerisms cont.
395-412
Wk 16 Dec 5
Venice
374-394
Sixteenth-century art theory: disegno vs. colorito, paragone
Roskill, 10-32, 40-49,
Klein 53-69
Dec 7 Council of Trent
412-429; Klein 119-133
Wk 17 Thursday, December 14th, 8:00 AM