The Age of Giotto . The course is intended to make the student familiar with the major artists and monuments of the period and to present recent research concerning the major issues that surround the study of early Italian art. Special attention will be given to questions of methodology, e.g., primary sources, the reliability of secondary sources such as chronicles, and the role of connoisseurship. This course will focus on the various problems still surrounding Johannes Vermeer in the aftermath of the 1996-1996 Washington and The Hague Vermeer exhibition and symposia. Among the other artists to be discussed will be Leonart Bramer, Karel Fabritius, Gerrit Dou, Samuel van Hoogstraten, Nicholas Maes, and Pieter de Hooch.
Auditors are welcome provided they attend regularly, and stay for the class presentations.
Italian Renaissance drawings. A private collection and a drawings restoration laboratory will also be visited. Shakespeare's Comedies . Emphasis will be on original reading of texts, plus awareness of Renaissance contexts. Research tools and methods will be emphasized.