Listed in: Architectural Studies, as ARCH-241 | Art and the History of Art, as ARHA-241 | European Studies, as EUST-241
Nicola Courtright (Section 01)
(Offered as ARHA 241, ARCH 241, and EUST 241) Michelangelo, a defining genius of the Italian Renaissance, emerged from a rich cultural environment that forever changed how we think of art. Artists of the Renaissance developed an original visual language from the legacy of the ancient world, while also examining nature, their environment, and encounters with other worlds to the East and West. Their art revealed a profound engagement with philosophical attitudes toward the body and the spirit, as well as with ideals of pious devotion and civic virtue. Those concepts changed radically over the period of the Renaissance, however. Artists developed the rhetoric of genius and artistic struggle by vaunting an artist’s godlike role, owing to his imaginative creation of art and his ability to mimic reality illusionistically, yet they also questioned a human’s place in the cosmos. We will analyze in depth the visual language of painting, sculpture, and architecture created for merchants, monks, princes and popes in the urban centers of Florence, Rome and Venice from the 14th through the 16th centuries, and examine the virtuosic processes artists used to achieve their goals.
Rather than taking the form of a survey, this course, based on lectures but regularly incorporating discussion, will analyze selected works and contemporary attitudes toward the visual through study of the art and its primary sources.
Learning goals:
Meets twice a week, 1 hour and 20 minutes.
One course in ARHA, FAMS, or ARCH recommended.
Uncapped.
Presence of the instructor:
Spring semester. Professor Courtright.
Section 01
W 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM BEBU 107
F 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM BEBU 107
This is preliminary information about books for this course. Please contact your instructor or the Academic Coordinator for the department, before attempting to purchase these books.
ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
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Italian Renaissance Art, | Thames and Hudson | Campbell and Cole | students order from us at buytextbooks@amherstbooks.com making sure to include a phone number. We'll assemble the books & either email them if there are problems, or call them to get credit card information. Then we collect all the day's orders & AC sen | TBD | ||
ABC of Architecture | O'Gorman | students order from us at buytextbooks@amherstbooks.com making sure to include a phone number. We'll assemble the books & either email them if there are problems, or call them to get credit card information. Then we collect all the day's orders & AC sen | TBD |