Course Listings 2. 402 A survey of the great monuments of art and architecture from its beginnings in caves through the arts of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome, Byzantium, the Islamic world, and medieval western Europe. The course attempts to make art accessible to students with no background in the subject, and it explains the ways in which painting, sculpture, and architecture are related to mythology, religion, politics, literature, and daily life. A survey of Western painting, sculpture, and architecture from roughly 1300 to the present. This course will analyze major images, themes, and movements in Western art in terms of their qualities of style, form, and technique and in relation to major historical, cultural, and intellectual developments.
Emphasis is placed on both historical data and learning how images of all kinds communicate.
A view of the sculpture, painting, and architecture of the Greeks from the Dark Ages through the Hellenistic period. The work of art will be studied against its social and intellectual background. The art and architecture of the early Church in East and West and its continuation in the Byzantine Emnpire and its cultural dependencies. One mid-term exam and a final exam. Possibly a short research project, but no term paper.