Seniors and graduate students in art history and fine arts preferred. Each student is required to be an active participant in class discussions. All Graduate Colloquia are conducted in conjunction with the undergraduate lectures, which the graduate students are required to attend. Graduate students meet with the professor once a week, in the block of time listed below, to discuss primary source material and recent scholarship. Permission of the instructor is required for all graduate level colloquia and seminars.
Classes are limited to fifteen students.
The colloquium will consider the theoretical writings on the arts in the Italian Renaissance, including the work of Cennino Cennini, Leon Battista Alberti, Leonardo da Vinci, Lodovico Dolce, Paolo Pino, Pietro Aretino, Giorgio Vasari, and Palladio. Explores realist and avant-garde movements from the turn of the century to the 1980s, including New York dada, early abstraction, regionalism, art and politics during the depression years, abstract expressionism, pop art and minimal art, feminist art, and recent developments in postmodernism. A1 Please see description for AH 404 A1. AH 804 B1 Please see description for AH 404 B1. The seminar will examine the extraordinarily large and diverse category of monuments erected in honor of the dead in ancient Rome, but that often commemorated achievements in life.