RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE ART  (ART 218)

  I     Title: Art 218   Renaissance & Baroque Art

 II     Catalog Description: Survey of the Renaissance and Baroque art
 Prerequisites for art majors: ART 120.

III     Purpose: To provide the students with increased knowledge of the major artists and works of art of the 14th through 18th centuries in Europe.

IV     Course objective: To help the students understand the broad historical and cultural context in which Renaissance and Baroque works of art were created. To provide the students with the necessary methodological tools of art history: bibliographic research, assessment of literature, written analysis of art that will enable him/her to undertake more thorough, as well as incisive study of these periods on a more advanced (400) level.

V     Content Outline: Late Gothic, Flemish 15th c., Early Italian Renaissance, High Renaissance, 16th c. in Northern Europe, Mannerism, transition to Baroque around 1600, High Baroque in the Catholic countries, Dutch Art, French Classical Baroque, Rococo, Beginning of Neoclassicism.

VI     Instructional Activities: Lectures with slides, handouts, discussion.

VII    Field and clinical experience: NA

VIII   Resources: Slides, handouts, library.

IX     Grading Procedure:
         4 quizzes (3 best count @ 100 points) 300 points
         Visual Analysis  150  (100 writing  & 50 grading)
         Contextual Analysis150 (100 writ.  & 50grading)
         Compare/ Contrast 150 (100 writ.  & 50 grading)
         Research Project 200 -Thesis 25
                                            Outline 50
                                            Annotated Bibliography 25
                                            Illustrations 25
                                            Formal issues [footnote style etc.] 25
         Participation 50
                                          Total points available 800

All assignments MUST be turned in ON TIME (see due dates on your daily schedule).
It is student’s esponsibility 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!!!

     1) Quizzes: slide identifications; facts, short definitions, short essays, short compare and contrast essays about slides.   In class, short (c. 10-15 minutes & c. half page)! Based on readings, discussions, & lectures. factually and/or conceptually oriented,. Stress will be placed on accuracy and completeness of the info. (*the lowest score will be dropped)
     2) Visual Analysis: examination of the formal properties of art  (2 pages typed)

Following two assignments are “micro research essays.”  Your arguments/points will have to supported by careful research with the sources cited in the footnotes.  They will also include illustrations.
        3) “Contextual” Analysis: study of meaning, purpose, and historical circumstances influencing the art work (how does style reflect the culture in which it was created).
Well written, typed: text 3-4 pages (including footnotes) & supporting materials!!!
        4) “Compare-Contrast”: essentially Visual and Contextual Analysis of two works interwoven together creating a complete “picture.”
Well written, typed: text 3-4 pages (including footnotes) & supporting materials!!!

The above-listed assignments 2, 3, and 4, will involve a so-called “peer grading.” You will be asked to read each others essays and grade them (including grammatical “proof-reading,” comments on content, and organization).  Your grade on these assignments will subsequently consider your own writing AND quality and sincerity of your grading.

         5) “Research Project”: Each student will select a topic from a list. The final project will be a well researched, and well argued OUTLINE providing reader with as complete picture of the THOUGHT PROCESSES of writing and doing research as possible.  Different points of  the outline should be specifically supported by references to the bibliographic sources. The bibliography must be annotated (explaining in about a paragraph the main focus of the author and the specific usefulness of the source. Also, the outlined discussion must be accompanied by an appropriate selection of  illustrations related to and supporting the points made.  (details will be discussed in class)

         6) Participation: active, regular, and constructive participation in the discussions based on readings, research, and lectures is crucial to the active learning of each individual as well as of the group, and will be monitored. (But for the “mortally shy,” you can participate in writing by turning in a sheet of written questions and/or constructive comments pertaining to the issues addressed in the class/lecture of that day.)  Extra credit will be available in this area.

X     Attendance Policy: Attendance is required. Five (5) 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. Eight (8) 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.  This applies also to the PLAGIARISM.

XII     Texts and references: Gloria K. Fiero, The Humanistic Tradition, volumes 3 & 4, 3rd ed., 1998, McGraw-Hill;
           RECOMMENDED: Gardner’s Art through the Ages, 10th ed. on reserve in the library

XIII     Prerequisites: For non-majors, none; for art majors, Art 120.

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.

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Daily Schedule - Fall 2000

Wk 1     Aug 21     intro.                                                            VOL. 3 -    1
             Aug 23     Humanization of Religion, Mendicant Orders                      8-9
             Aug 25     Humanism: Petrarch, Boccacio etc.                                    23-27, 9-11

Wk 2     Aug 28     Giotto                                                                               15-22
                                   Basis of the Visual Analysis
                                Visual Analysis (VA) Assignment
             Aug 30     Black Death, International Gothic                                       2-6
             Sep 1       ARS NOVA Beginning of  the Flemish 15th-century art
                              Limbourgh Bros.; Robert Campin; Jan van Eyck               17-22, 49, 79

Wk 3     Sep 4      LABOR DAY
             Sep 6      Rogier van der Weyden; later 15th century
             Sep 8      QUIZ # 1
                                Discussion of topics
                              VA DUE for grading

Wk 4     Sep 11    Topics Assignment
                              Graded VA DUE
             Sep 13     Humanism and the beginnings of the Italian Renaissance     27-28
             Sep 15     Early Renaissance: rediscovery of Nature and Classical Past
                             Alberti On Painting analysis and discussion                       39-42, 51-55
                               Contextual Analysis (CA) Assignment

Wk 5     Sep 18     Ghiberti, Donatello, Masaccio, et all
             Sep 20     15th c. architecture:  Brunelleschi                                    42-47
             Sep 22     15th-c. Humanism                                                          28-38
 

Wk 6     Sep 25     Second half of the 15th c. cont.
             Sep 27     Venice 15th c
             Sep 29      Intro. to High Renaissance                                             55 -

Wk 7     Oct 2      QUIZ # 2
                              Leonardo                                                                     55-75
              Oct 4       Rome of Julius II; Bramante, Raphael and early Michelangelo
              Oct 6        NO CLASS

Wk 8     Oct 9        Rome of Julius II; Bramante, Raphael and early Michelangelo cont.
                                  CA DUE for grading
              Oct 11      High Ren. in Venice
              Oct 13      FALL BREAK

Wk 9     Oct 16      Protest and Reform                                                      77-84, 93-95
                                  Graded CA DUE
              Oct 18      Northern Europe in the 16th c.:
                               Dürer, Grünwald, Bosch, Brugel, etc.                           84-97
                                    Compare & Contrast Analysis Assignment
              Oct 20      NO CLASS

Wk 10   Oct 23      Catholic Reformation                                 VOL. 4 -  1,2,5
              Oct 25      Mannerism and the Council of Trent                             9-13
              Oct 27      discussion

Wk 11    Oct 30      QUIZ # 3
                                c.1600 Catholic Reformation cont.                              5-9
               Nov 1      New Learning                                                             42-50
               Nov 3       NO CLASS

Wk 12    Nov 6      Caravaggio and Carracci                                             14-16
                                  C&C DUE for grading
               Nov 8     Bernini - Sculpture                                                      17-18, 9
               Nov 10   Bernini, Borromini  - Architecture                                18-23, 25-26
                                  Graded C&C DUE

Wk 13    Nov 13     Rubens, Spanish Baroque                                          27-31;73-75
               Nov 15     Protestant North                                                       27-(42-60)
               Nov 17     Dutch art:  Rembrandt                                               35-37;~60

Wk 14     Nov 20     Dutch art cont.:  Hals, Vermeer                                 42-60
                                    Research Project package DUE
                Nov 22     THANKSGIVING
                Nov 24     THANKSGIVING

Wk 15     Nov 27     Absolutism:  French classicism (Louis XIV)                61-70
                Nov 29     Poussin and beginning of Academy                            71-73
                Dec 1        NO CLASS (W.I.P.)

Wk 16     Dec 4         QUIZ # 4
                                   Enlightenment                                                           97-136,148-149
                Dec 6          Rococo                                                                   139-147
                Dec 8          Neoclassicism                                                          150-161
                                      Rewrite of the Research Project DUE if necessary

Wk 17       FINALS     (No official final scheduled)

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